From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Cooper Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:38:40 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] repurposing uboot's console UART after booting In-Reply-To: <31463780.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <31463780.post@talk.nabble.com> Message-ID: <20110424013840.GD11809@localhost> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 06:03:46PM -0700, CAIannello wrote: > After booting, I would like to use this UART for other things besides shells > and U-Boot status. I want to attach custom peripherals to it instead. > > I tried killing the ttymxc0's shell process from my ssh session, but another > one pops right up. This has nothing to do with U-Boot. Linux typically uses the file /etc/inittab to specify whether to spawn login processes on serial lines. Look at that, along with the Linux man page for "init". -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u