[yocto] Unable to get serial console login prompt - PowerPC 440 Virtex 5 processor

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Bob Cochran <yocto at mindchasers.com> wrote:
> On 07/31/2012 01:27 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote:
>>
>> Is serial console login prompt broken on yocto for targets other than
>> Intel? Does it work on ARM or PowerPC at the moment, with the latest
>> yocto updates as of today?
>
>
> Hi Elvis,
>
> For my Freescale QorIQ e500v2 target, the use of getty inside init / inittab
> has been broken for awhile.  I used to get the hangs you're reporting, but
> now I also see the following at the conclusion of init:
>
> serial8250: too much work for irq42
>
>
> I'm glad you're working this issue, and I'll try to jump in this week.
>
>
> My workaround has been a hack to inittab to replace getty with /bin/sh -
> most of my work is done across the network via ssh to the target, so I
> didn't mind ignoring the problem.

These seem like quite different issues, code generation vs. some
inittab foo... are you seeing this issues with upstream? I've recently
gotten some inittab cleanups into oe-core for master / denzil / my own
edison branch + meta-fsl-ppc...

-M

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> Bob
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