Linux porting to IBM405 based board

Linux porting to IBM405 based board

[Rakesh jagota]

Hi all,
I am able to port linux in IBM based power pc 405. I have few issues. I am
not able to kill the process using "ctrl-c". I am not able to use "backspace"
key to delete the character. Can anyone help me out sort out these silly
issues.


Thanks & Regards,

Rakesh


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Re: Linux porting to IBM405 based board

[Mark Hatle]

Rakesh jagota wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am able to port linux in IBM based power pc 405. I have few issues. I am
> not able to kill the process using "ctrl-c". I am not able to use "backspace"
> key to delete the character. Can anyone help me out sort out these silly
> issues.

This problem comes up often.

You can NOT use /dev/console as your interactive login device without
first calling the ioctl to make it a "controlling tty".  (Sorry I don't
have which ioctl handy.)

The correct thing to do is use the serial port, or virtual TTY as your
console device.. i.e.:

/bin/sh < /dev/console > /dev/console   is _WRONG_.  It works for
testing, but you don't have a controlling terminal.

You need to do something like:

/bin/sh < /dev/ttyS0 > /dev/ttyS0

(and if you want to see error messages, redirect that as well)  :)

--Mark


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RE: Linux porting to IBM405 based board

[Kerl, John]

For control-C, you might check your terminal emulation
program.  Window$-based ones typically consume ^C for
the Copy function.  Does control-\ work?

For backspace, does the delete key work instead?  If so,
you might check out the manpage for stty.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rakesh jagota [mailto:j.rakesh@gdatech.co.in]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:58 PM
To: Linuxppc-Embedded
Subject: Linux porting to IBM405 based board



Hi all,
I am able to port linux in IBM based power pc 405. I have few issues. I am
not able to kill the process using "ctrl-c". I am not able to use
"backspace"
key to delete the character. Can anyone help me out sort out these silly
issues.


Thanks & Regards,

Rakesh


** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/