[Buildroot] [PATCH] configs/chiliboard: remove explicit getty port

Marcin Niestrój m.niestroj at grinn-global.com
Fri Nov 23 10:12:57 UTC 2018


Hi Arnout,

Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

> On 21/11/2018 22:01, Marcin Niestroj wrote:
>> Using default value (console) works well, so there is no reason to set
>> tty explicitly. Additionally after selecting newer kernels (tested
>> with 4.19 and 4.20-rc3) ttyO0 no longer works due to missing device
>> node.
>
>  Actually, does it still work with the 4.16 kernel? IIRC the ttyO were replaced
> by the standard ttyS ages ago (like, 3.18 or something like that). If it doesn't
> work with the 4.16 kernel, it should be applied to master.
>

Yes, it still works with 4.16. There are /dev/ttyS[0-5] and /dev/ttyO0
nodes. In case of 4.19 and 4.20 there is no /dev/ttyO0 anymore, but I
did not get into the exact reason what changed. I just checked how other
boards configure getty in Buildroot and it turns out most of them leave
the default value.

>  Anyway,
>
> Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>

Thanks!

Regards,
Marcin

>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marcin Niestroj <m.niestroj at grinn-global.com>
>> ---
>>  configs/grinn_chiliboard_defconfig | 1 -
>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/configs/grinn_chiliboard_defconfig b/configs/grinn_chiliboard_defconfig
>> index 81d7bae911..84f24e1cc4 100644
>> --- a/configs/grinn_chiliboard_defconfig
>> +++ b/configs/grinn_chiliboard_defconfig
>> @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
>>  BR2_arm=y
>>  BR2_cortex_a8=y
>>  BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_4_16=y
>> -BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT="ttyO0"
>>  BR2_SYSTEM_DHCP="eth0"
>>  BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="board/grinn/chiliboard/post-image.sh"
>>  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
>>


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