[BusyBox] init.c

David Meggy david at techsol.ca
Wed Apr 24 10:53:04 UTC 2002


So there is no problem in commenting out these options, or make it an
option in Config.h.  I'm working on an embedded device with a serial
console, and a frame buffer, that is not quite complete, and we would
like console support on both for now.

Dave

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Joerg Schmitz-Linneweber wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> On Wednesday, 24. April 2002 00:41, David Meggy wrote:
> > The following code is from around line 387
> >
> > <code snippet>
> > ...
> > </code snippet>
> >
> > I was wondering why the other consoles are turned off if there is a serial
> > console.
> Because if you are on an embedded system (which is normally low on RAM) it 
> makes sense to assume that if there is a console connected to a ttyS one does 
> not have virtual terminals (or even an (frame-)buffer) to display messages on.
> So to save some (k)bytes they are set free :-)
> 
> HTH. Salut, Jörg
> 
> 




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