Porting plymouth

[Ray Strode]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:26 PM,  <sbell at tdt.com> wrote:
>> You also don't have the /dev/ttyO2 device node created, so it can't use
>> it.
>
> Ok, so I can confirm that once I create /dev/ttyO2, I see the text I'm
> sending to plymouth appear on my serial console
>
>
>> plymouth forces text output if there's a serial console attached. You
>> have console=ttyO2 on the kernel command line so that's what it's
>> doing.
>
> Is there a way to override this behavior, so that I can test plymouth
> without sacrificing my (only) debugging interface?

I believe you can use plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles on the kernel
command line.

I added that in this commit:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/plymouth/commit/?id=6e50233b031ed301813de7f075ae0d606eae010c

Though, it's not a feature that's gotten much testing, so may need
fixes for your situation--not sure.  Let me know.

--Ray