[OLPC-devel] Re: just tested new buildrom with linuxbios version 2376

Jordan Crouse jordan.crouse at amd.com
Tue Aug 15 15:33:47 EDT 2006


On 15/08/06 14:12 -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
> >
> >I guess we could loop back around to the bootmenu if somebody exists the
> >shell, but I really am loath to add extra infrastructure just for this.
> >Can't one just reset the board and go from there?
> 
> I thought we were going to put the shell on a different VT.
> 
> tty0 has the graphical boot and then tty1 has the command shell.

The graphical boot isn't persistant.  It goes away when the timeout 
expires or when a menu option is selected.  Do we seriously want a shell
always available on the production ROM?  I say no.  

-- 
Jordan Crouse
Senior Linux Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
<www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors>





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