Re: Login prompt on a video console instead of serial port?

On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 15:02 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:

McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:

quoted

Don't you have to spawn a terminal on the framebuffer for the login?

I suppose, but I don't know how to do that.  And although that would technically
answer the question in the subject of this thread, I still would have *some*
boot output on the serial port.  It would be nice if I could get all of stdout
on the video display, and all of stdin from the serial port.

I don't think we have a way to do that unless you can make a serial
"keyboard" device in the input layer. The VT layer will only get its
input from such a thing, maybe that does exist in the depth of legacy
code in there but it has nothing to do with your device-tree.

quoted

Right now getty spawns the login on the serial port via /etc/inittab.
Something similiar is probably needed for the framebuffer.

getty appears to work only with serial devices, since it insists on a baud rate
as one of the parameters.

No, or no existing distro would work :-)

Just fake a baudrate for the tty's

Cheers,
Ben.