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Re: Multiple console support in d-i



On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:02:33AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>On Sun, 2019-01-20 at 01:21 +0000, Wookey wrote:

...

>> My current code leaves all this alone and just records/uses all
>> enabled consoles on the command line, not just the last one, but
>> ideally we'd autodetect and/or hardcode all the sensible available
>> consoles and run on them.
>> 
>> If 'read /proc/consoles (and check the devices exist)' does this, then
>> that sounds very sensible.
>
>Reading /proc/consoles is exactly what you should do.

Aha, thanks! I genuinely wasn't aware of /proc/consoles, and it does
sound like exactly the right thing to be looking at. :-)

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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