On 15-01-09 09:51 AM, Karl Palsson wrote:
"Stam, Michel [FINT]" <m.s...@fugro.nl> wrote:
This, to me, seems the most logical solution, as consoles should be
available to the init process early on during boot, and not hot-plugged
in afterwards. Do you agree?
Well, I don't. What about a usb serial port? I'd like to plug in the
usb cable, providing vbus to power up a cp210x, which then becomes a new
/dev/ttyUSBxxx and I'd like inittab to offer me a console there. It's not
there at boot though...
This is actually very close to what we're doing on this board, it has
two console ports: one
is a UART which the bootloader and kernel are using, and a second
console port which is really
just a USB device controller. The UART lines are a pain to get to
without a soldering iron so
under AA and BB we would just connect a laptop into the USB port and get
a console on the router.
However, it's not quite real hotplugging since /dev/ttyGS0 is present
whenever the driver is
loaded, just that it depends on the USB gadget drivers which get loaded
a little too late for
inittab to find it. Hotplugging does sound like a cool feature though.
Cheers,
Owen
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