Re: [OE-core] SERIAL_CONSOLE versus SERIAL_CONSOLES?

2016-10-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 07:57 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >   so is it a fair statement that, pedantically, i might as well just > > define everything in terms of SERIAL_CONSOLES and think that way? > > > > Yes. SERIAL_CONSOLE predates

Re: [OE-core] SERIAL_CONSOLE versus SERIAL_CONSOLES?

2016-10-17 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 07:57 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >   so is it a fair statement that, pedantically, i might as well just > define everything in terms of SERIAL_CONSOLES and think that way? > Yes.  SERIAL_CONSOLE predates SERIAL_CONSOLES and remains supported in the configuration for

[OE-core] SERIAL_CONSOLE versus SERIAL_CONSOLES?

2016-10-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i am well aware that if one wants to define a single serial console, then using the SERIAL_CONSOLE variable will work just fine, as in: SERIAL_CONSOLE ?= "115200 ttyS0" and if you want to define multiple possible consoles, use: SERIAL_CONSOLES = "115200;ttyAMA0 115200;ttyAMA1" however, i