Why boot logo needs framebuffer console enabled?

2013-08-27 Thread Woody Wu
Hi, In order to have a logo (full screen on my LCD) displayed when kernel booting, I have to enable framebuffer console. But, to me, the LCD is not a console, my console is just on a serial terimal. Can I have the boot logo shown without enabling the framebuffer console? Thanks in advance -- I

How out input/output devices of a virtual terminal

2013-08-27 Thread Woody Wu
Hi, List I have a framebuffer console which is mapped to /dev/tty1 after kernel startup. I know the output device is /dev/fb0 for this console, but don't know what is its input device. How can I find out it? In my system, following things are possible: serial line, touch screen, mice ... Thanks

Re: Using same .config on different machines

2013-08-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:15:20 +0530, Arun M Kumar said: > Is it OK to use same .config file on different machines. As long as the .config includes all the moduled needed for all the machines in question. That's basically what a distro kernel does - include all the drivers for all supported hardwar

Re: First userspace executalbe run at boot up

2013-08-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:00:00 +0200, Matthias Brugger said: > All of them try to execute init by invoking run_init_process. > So my question is, why does the rdinit= parameter exist, I suppose for > reasons of compatibility with older kernel versions. But why it is set > to "/init"? Consider the c

Using same .config on different machines

2013-08-27 Thread Arun M Kumar
Is it OK to use same .config file on different machines. I had a Dell Optiplex running OpenSuSE 11.3, KV: 2.6.32 for development purpose during my college days, can i use the same config file now on KV: 3.9.10 The command $ make -j 8 completed sucessfully but #make modules_install gives the fol

First userspace executalbe run at boot up

2013-08-27 Thread Matthias Brugger
Hi all, I'm actually reading the init/main.c source code to understand which is the first user space program the Linux kernel runs. As far as I understood it: 1. tries to execute the file defined by the rdinit= kernel parameter and sets it to "/init" if the parameter is not given 2. tries to exec