[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] add support for virtual terminal
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue Nov 8 09:35:07 UTC 2011
>>>>> "Yegor" == Yegor Yefremov <yegor_sub1 at visionsystems.de> 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
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