On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 7:26 AM Sathees Balya <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> We reverted the commit "50cdecca7b2a0e1bb5eacbec132f26b802f950fc" and the 
> console starts as expected. Thanks.
>

We had already established that without the commit things start, they
were starting before we made that
change. It was for fixing a different issue and for standardizing on
the use of the variable.

I'm trying to find out if we change the startup check, if the console
still works.

Bruce

>
> Regards,
> Sathees
>
> On 08/04/2019, 04:12, "Bruce Ashfield" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 4:11 PM Filipe Rinaldi <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     >
>     > With regards commit "50cdecc sysvinit-inittab_xen.inc: fix hypervisor 
> console"...
>     >
>     >
>     > We are having issues with this patch. When using start_getty (a wrapper 
> to getty) it will first check if the console device is a "serial" device 
> driver [1]. It then fails because hvc0 is a "system" device, not a "serial" 
> [2].
>     >
>     >
>     > [1] 
> https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/blob/master/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab/start_getty#L11
>     >
>     > [2] 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c#n1036
>     >
>     >
>     > Any thoughts?
>
>     Can you confirm that if that check is removed that the console still
>     functions as expected ?
>
>     Rather than bouncing back and forth between fixing one issue, and
>     creating another, I'm tempted to just bbappend and patch the
>     problematic check out of the startup. But I'm not currently setup to
>     test the issue.
>
>     Bruce
>
>     >
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     >
>     > Filipe
>     >
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