Hi Geert, On 03/11/2015 09:23 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The first console listed is the primary console. >> tty0 is not resolved to its underlying tty device name. > > Are you sure about that? Isn't the last one the primary console? > > root@koelsch:~# cat /sys/class/tty/console/active > tty0 ttySC0 > > If tty0 would be the primary console, getty on /dev/console wouldn't work for > my serial console, as only input on the primary console can be read through > /dev/console if my memory serves me well (or perhaps this has changed?). > > Ah, Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty agrees with me: > > What: /sys/class/tty/console/active > Date: Nov 2010 > Contact: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> > Description: > Shows the list of currently configured > console devices, like 'tty1 ttyS0'. > The last entry in the file is the active > device connected to /dev/console. Did I write 'first'? <blushes> Yeah, it is 'last', as the documentation states. >> That said, is the original reporter of this problem even interested in >> upgrading their userspace, even if this is fixed in Linaro eventually? >> What about other Linaro users? > > We'll see... > >> I think the only reasonable course here is to continue to support >> "console=" in /chosen/bootargs. > > Hmm... > If you really need it, you can always add it to the U-Boot bootargs variable. Is u-boot a given? Regards, Peter Hurley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
