Login prompt on a video console instead of serial port?

McClintock Matthew-B29882 B29882 at freescale.com
Tue May 3 05:55:21 EST 2011


Don't you have to spawn a terminal on the framebuffer for the login?
Right now getty spawns the login on the serial port via /etc/inittab.
Something similiar is probably needed for the framebuffer.

-M



On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com> wrote:
> I'm using a Freescale P1022DS (PowerPC e500 core) system, which has a built-in
> video controller.  I have a framebuffer driver that works fine, and if I add
> "video=fslfb:1280x1024-32 at 60,monitor=0 console=tty0" to the command-line, then
> *most* of the kernel boot log appears on the serial port and the video display.
>
> However, the login prompt is always on the serial port.  This happens even if I
> delete the "console=ttyS0,115200" from the command-line.  I presume this is
> because the "linux,stdout-path" property in the device tree always points to a
> serial port node.
>
> So my question is: what do I need to do get the login prompt on the video
> console?  That is, stdout goes to /dev/fb0 but stdin is still from /dev/ttyS0.
> I presume I need to direct "linux,stdout-path" to the fslfb node in the device
> tree, but there doesn't appear to be support for "linux,stdin-path".


More information about the devicetree-discuss mailing list