On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Graeme Gregory graeme.gregory@linaro.org wrote:
I think the auto-serial-console is certainly a feature of image and not machine as it currently is in linaro layers. I have been commenting it out of all the machines for ages now as it clashes horribly with systemd.
i was just looking into systemd recipes after reading koen's email, and definitely confirms that it will crash with it ;-)
I assume it was originally designed for LAVA, I would go as far as to say its a really special case which should have its own range of images devoted to it?
well, historically, it's been done as an helper for ubuntu ARM images to start the console on the 'right' port. then it was pulled into OE/meta-linaro. it's mostly required by LAVA, you're right. Though Tyler mentioned that they will eventually support non autologin image in LAVA too.
more generally, i think it is still a decent feature to have, but we need to split it into 2 pieces. serial console 'config' which can be done when SERIAL_CONSOLE(S) is not defined, and auto login of root.