[Buildroot] [PATCH] system: add "askfirst shell" as an option for busybox init

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Dec 17 15:14:06 UTC 2014


Dear Alexey Brodkin,

On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:03:12 +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:

> Well, actually putting "console" in BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT
> resolves only part of issues - need to specify particular tty.
> 
> But still we have serial port settings like baudrate.
> BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_BAUDRATE_x must match your serial port
> settings.
> 
> So we're loosing flexibility of my approach here, but what is even more
> important imagine if there're 2 serial ports in the system and they have
> different baudrates but both properly described in kernel bootargs. With
> BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY only 1 console could be used then but not
> either of them.

Ah, yes I haven't looked at the baudrate issue. Isn't there a way to
not pass any baudrate to getty, and let it use whatever baudrate is
already configured on the device?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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