From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:35:07 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] add support for virtual terminal In-Reply-To: <4EB8DEF6.3020106@visionsystems.de> (Yegor Yefremov's message of "Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:49:10 +0100") References: <4EB7C53D.4030902@visionsystems.de> <87pqh3d0bn.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <4EB8DEF6.3020106@visionsystems.de> Message-ID: <87lirrc5ys.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Yegor" == Yegor Yefremov writes: Hi, >> I'm not sure I like another option for this - Can't you just use the >> existing GENERIC_SERIAL and/or the post-build script for this? Yegor> I'd like to have both serial console and virtual one (on tty I Yegor> experiment with my program and vie serial console I can do other Yegor> administrative tasks. One could use ssh, but this implies having Yegor> network connection). Every time I execute make clean or clone BR Yegor> I loose my inittab. Earlier versions of inittab had some ttys Yegor> predefined, but they were deleted, so I thought, it would be Yegor> useful to add this as an option. This way everyone should be Yegor> satisfied. .. until someone wants a getty on tty2 or tty3 or so on. We need to keep serial config, as different boards have differnt serial port names, but I would like to keep the configuration options to a minimum, and just let people use custom inittab / skeleton or add it with the post-build script for special stuff. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard