Howto redirect serial console

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Dach,

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 08:01:21PM +0200, Dach Miroslaw wrote:
> I have a ppc405 based board with one serial interface which I use as a console.
> I would like to redirect or suppress, at run time, the console in order to use the
> serial port to control external serial devices.
> 
> I have tried (busybox) setconsole program to redirect the console to /dev/null
> but it did not work. What would be the elegant way to redirect or suppress the serial console.

I encountered a similar situation before. My solution was to pass console=tty1 
to the kernel.

baruch

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