Hi all,
this should be interesting for the embedded and evaluation board
fraction on this list. I'd appreciate if someone of them'd check
out and report,
Ralf
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> From owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Thu Jan 30 00:32:16 1997
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Cc: torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI
> Subject: New patch version: Display and keyboard drivers configuration option
> for embedded systems
> References: <199701041737.UAA24405@axl01it.ntc.nokia.com>
> From: Kohtala Marko <Marko.Kohtala@ntc.nokia.com>
> Date: 30 Jan 1997 01:23:50 +0200
> In-Reply-To: Kohtala Marko's message of Sat, 4 Jan 1997 19:37:58 +0200
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> There is now a new version of the patch. There has been no feedback
> from any others, even when there vere some bugs.
>
> Get it from here: http://www.hut.fi/~mkohtala/newtty.diff
>
> This patch is to make the virtual terminal tty devices be a
> configuration option. This is of use to those wanting to run Linux on
> machines that have no video or keyboard hardware.
>
> The patch is needed by few groups porting Linux to MVME or other
> embedded systems. However, this is just about all I can do to it
> without your feedback.
>
> The patch defines three new CONFIG_ macros
> CONFIG_VT for inclusion of console, vt, vc_screen,
> consolemap, selection, keyboard and defkeymap
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE for directing printk to the VT device
> CONFIG_VT_SERIAL for directing printk to the standard serial device
>
> Both CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE and CONFIG_VT_SERIAL can be used together in
> which case the output goes to both. To support this, there is a new
> console device list with entries for this output. The list also has
> entries for waiting a key press and for determining what device really
> to open for /dev/console, but these are used only from the device at
> the head of the list.
>
> The rest of the change is to move some code from tty_io.c to other
> files where it seems to fit better. This avoids some #ifdef CONFIG_VT
> / #endif.
>
> --
> ---
> Marko Kohtala - Marko.Kohtala@ntc.nokia.com, Marko.Kohtala@hut.fi
>
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