Re: /dev/console and mknod question

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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