[OE-core] [PATCH] Introduce new SERIAL_CONSOLES to add multiple consoles for your MACHINE

Matthew McClintock msm at freescale.com
Fri Nov 4 21:07:52 UTC 2011


Just define additional serial consoles like so:

SERIAL_CONSOLES="115200;ttyS0 115200;ttyS1 ... 115200;ttySN"

Also be sure to remove SERIAL_CONSOLE (lacking the S) from your
machine as they can conflict.

Signed-off-by: Matthew McClintock <msm at freescale.com>
---
 .../sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb           |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb
index ba60c74..3a716d7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb
@@ -25,6 +25,16 @@ do_install() {
     if [ ! -z "${SERIAL_CONSOLE}" ]; then
         echo "S:2345:respawn:${base_sbindir}/getty ${SERIAL_CONSOLE}" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
     fi
+
+    idx=0
+    tmp="${SERIAL_CONSOLES}"
+    for i in $tmp
+    do
+	j=`echo ${i} | sed s/\;/\ /g`
+        echo "${idx}:2345:respawn:${base_sbindir}/getty ${j}" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
+	idx=`expr $idx + 1`
+    done
+
     if [ "${USE_VT}" = "1" ]; then
         cat <<EOF >>${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
 # ${base_sbindir}/getty invocations for the runlevels.
-- 
1.7.6.1






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