In message <DB0585C9F6F9D411BE8F00D0B7896A4CC0603B at SNCMAIL> you wrote: > > 2.) I added line "ttyS1::askfirst:-/bin/sh" to inittab ... and I get > "Bummer, can't open /dev/ttyS1" ... which was funny enough to make me blow > coffee out my nose ... whats this tty normally used for?
It is you who defines the use of the serial ports on your board - we cannot answer this question. > 3.) I added line "ttyS0::askfirst:-/bin/sh" to inittab ... and that seems to > work ... > > Three leads to a question ... here it is ... > > Should I change 'libbb.h' to open /dev/ttyS0 instead of ttyS ... see line You probably don't want to make your ramdisk image dependend on a specific board / tty use. If you look closer at our ELDK you will find that it contains a small modification to "login" (calling of TIOCSCTTY ioctl) which was necessary to allow for using /dev/console as the default serial console device specified in inittab. See the build/target_rpms/util-linux/SOURCES/login-eldk.patch file in the ELDK build environment. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. - Edmund Burke ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
