/dev/console and mknod question

[Jerry Van Baren]

mknod is a generic unix command, used to make device controlling entries
(nodes) in the /dev tree.

gvb


At 10:21 PM 10/9/2002 -0500, Yu Bo-BOYU1 wrote:

>Finally I got the linux work on my custom board. At first I encountered
>"unable to open an initial console" problem. I created /dev/console then it
>worked.
>
>But I am still wondering how this /dev/console works ? Why mknod (which I
>think
>is a native intel platform command) can create a device that cross platform
>powerpc linux
>can understand ?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Bo Yu
>Motorola, GTSS
>1-817-245-6725
>
>


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