[U-Boot] repurposing uboot's console UART after booting

[Eric Cooper]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 06:03:46PM -0700, CAIannello wrote:
> After booting, I would like to use this UART for other things besides shells
> and U-Boot status.  I want to attach custom peripherals to it instead. 
> 
> I tried killing the ttymxc0's shell process from my ssh session, but another
> one pops right up.

This has nothing to do with U-Boot.  Linux typically uses the file
/etc/inittab to specify whether to spawn login processes on serial
lines.  Look at that, along with the Linux man page for "init".

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