Re: Support for netconsole as default tty/console?

From: One Thousand Gnomes
Date: Mon Mar 31 2014 - 08:32:25 EST


On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:26:35 +0200
Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Samo Pogacnik added a generic solution a few years ago. The ttyprintk
> > driver provides you with a tty/console whose 'hardware' is printk and
> > thus whatever system log device you are using.
>
> Unfortunately it's an EXPERT setting, thus typically not avaiable.

It's however implemented and present. The rest is between you and the
relevant Kconfig maintainer. I'm sure you count as an expert ;-)

(and perhaps moving it into drivers/tty would also be sensible).

Alan
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