[meta-virtualization] [PATCH] Add getty to inittab for login on Xen serial console.

Chris Patterson cjp256 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 20:07:58 PST 2013


Thanks, handy!


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Philip Tricca <flihp at twobit.us> wrote:
> > It's not pretty but the mechanisms in sysvinit-inittab assume the
> > console device name is tty*. The Xen console device doesn't meet
> > this criteria.
>
> merged (with a minor tweak to the shortlog).
>
> Bruce
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Philip Tricca <flihp at twobit.us>
> > ---
> >  recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bbappend |    7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644
> recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bbappend
> >
> > diff --git a/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bbappend
> b/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bbappend
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..2edbedf
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bbappend
> > @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> > +do_install_append() {
> > +       echo "${DISTRO_FEATURES}" | grep -q 'xen'
> > +       if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
> > +               echo "" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
> > +               echo "X0:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 hvc0" >>
> ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
> > +       fi
> > +}
> > --
> > 1.7.10.4
> >
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