serial tty name

Rob Herring rob.herring at calxeda.com
Wed Dec 14 10:31:59 EST 2011


Richard,

On 12/14/2011 08:43 AM, Richard Zhao wrote:
> How to map different uart port to ttymxc0 (take imx for example)?
> 
> In rootfs, it usually "getty ttymxc0"  to get
> serial console. And the rootfs may be shared by different boards.
> Traditionaly way is to set right platform device ID.
> 
> But with DT, UART2 always generate ttymxc1, UART3 for ttymxc2. You
> always needs to modify the getty command when your change another board.
> 
> Is there a way to fix it?

That's what the aliases are for.

Rob



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