Bug#150791: boot-floppies: A wrong inittab file is created on StrongARM systems without VT support.

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 12:39, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 02:51:33PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 22:04, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> > > On StrongARM systems without VT support, an inittab file is created which 
> > > doesn't list any existing tty device. The on chip serial ports on StrongARM
> > > systems are NOT called /dev/ttySx but /dev/ttySAx because they use another 
> > > serial driver than normal 16550 style uarts and other major/minor numbers.
> > 
> > Which particular machine type is this?
> 
> It's a trizeps board, which is a SA1110 implementation on a SODIMM
> sized card with flash and SDRAM. The trizeps module is meant to be
> plugged on a custom board which provides all I/O devices.

I see.  Well, this isn't a machine type that the boot-floppies makes any
particular effort to support.  If you'd like to send a patch to fix the
inittab creation, I will certainly check it in, but I don't expect any
of the boot-floppies developers will be rushing to fix this of their own
accord.

I'll leave the bug open, though, and perhaps it will be addressed in the
new debian-installer project.

p.



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