From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 20:02:57 +0000 Subject: Re: Login prompt on a video console instead of serial port? Message-Id: <4DBF0DF1.6050207@freescale.com> List-Id: References: <4DBF065C.3030407@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: McClintock Matthew-B29882 Cc: devicetree-discuss , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote: > Don't you have to spawn a terminal on the framebuffer for the login? I suppose, but I don't know how to do that. And although that would technically answer the question in the subject of this thread, I still would have *some* boot output on the serial port. It would be nice if I could get all of stdout on the video display, and all of stdin from the serial port. > Right now getty spawns the login on the serial port via /etc/inittab. > Something similiar is probably needed for the framebuffer. getty appears to work only with serial devices, since it insists on a baud rate as one of the parameters. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale