General PTY and CONSOLE question

[Gene Smith]

Thomas,
Thanks for the quick answer. But guess I am confused. You *have* to have 
a console driver in the conf table even if your board has no uart?

Or maybe I can replace the console driver with 
"CONFIGURE_APPICATION_NBEDS_STUB_DRIVER"  which pulls in devnull.h ?? I 
will try this...

wkr,
-gene



Thomas Doerfler wrote:
> Gene,
> 
> during startup RTEMS tries to open "dev/console". If you don't a device
> of this name, you will run into trouble. PTY will be initialized later
> (AFAIK), so this can't be a replacement.
> 
> Maybe the NULL device can help you as a dummy replacement of the console?
> 
> wkr,
> Thomas.
> 
> 
> Gene Smith wrote:
>> Does a PTY driver require the console driver? When I remove 
>> CONSOLE_DRIVER_TABLE_ENTRY from the Device_drivers[] array I get no pty 
>> login. Are they somehow tied together? Examples I have seen on the list 
>> have the both.
>>
>> I need to run with my UART h/w disabled (I can't have it on, I need its 
>> I/O ports for other functions). However I would still like the PTY 
>> login/shell to be working (for now).
>>
>> The other problem also might be that print[kf] calls are still present 
>> in the code. printk still tries to send chars to the uart even when 
>> CONSOLE is gone. I am not sure about printf.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -gene
>>
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