[Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> 
> I'm porting Android to another ARM926 based SoC and seem to have the
> kernel booting, but see the message
> 
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> 
> I believe this means the kernel couldn't open /dev/console 

Yes, but this is generally harmless (our init does not depend on stdio
being directed to a console).

> and also
> noticed that the out/target/product/generic/root/dev directory is
> empty. Should the build process create the device file system or is
> there another mechanism that creates this at run time? TIA!

init contains a sort of "micro udev" that listens to the kernel UEVENTs
and populates /dev, manages permissions, etc.

Brian

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