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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear CAIannello,

In message <31463780.post at talk.nabble.com> you 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.

CXheck /etc/inittab ...

> In case its not obvious, I'm new to linux, but eager to learn.  If possible,
> I'd rather not rebuild/reinstall U-boot on this device.  Instead, I would
> like to try to make U-Boot release the UART programatically after booting.
> 
> Any tips?

Well, try posting on a mailing list that deals with Linux questions.
This issue is in no way related to U-Boot.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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