| Message ID | 20250422190053.3244331-1-ross.burton@arm.com |
|---|---|
| State | New |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [RFC,walnascar,1/3] systemd: enable getty generator by default | expand |
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_257.4.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_257.4.bb index 64fb8fe69ac..f90308f0db0 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_257.4.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_257.4.bb @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ??= " \ quotacheck \ randomseed \ resolved \ + serial-getty-generator \ set-time-epoch \ sysusers \ timedated \
Until recently, even when the getty generator was disabled in the systemd recipe it was actually still active. This was because the old behaviour was to delete the serial-getty template unit if the generator was disabled, but the systemd-serialgetty package shipped then shipped the same files so the generator continued to run. This was a bug in the original commit[1] so this behaviour has been present since 2016. My recent fixes[2] changed this: if the getty generator was disabled then the generator itself is deleted. This makes the actual behaviour match the intention, but the consequence was to demonstrate that some modern platforms were relying on this unexpected behaviour: specifically the genericarm64 BSP which intends to support a number of virtual and physical boards with a number of serial console ports that are not really suitable to be hardcoded into SERIAL_CONSOLES: - ttyS0 - ttyAMA0 (AMBA PL011 uart) - ttyS2 (BeagleBone Play, S0 and S1 are internal) - hvc0 (KVM) - ttyPS1 (AMD KV260) - And most likely more Restore the existing behaviour by explicitly enabling the serial getty generator: this means that systemd will automatically bring up a getty on the first serial console it finds. In the future we should extend some level of dynamic console-finding to sysvinit-based systems by searching for a console device in inittab, but for now this reverts the unintentional regression. [1] oe-core 2a8d0df47c9 ("systemd: make systemd-serialgetty optional") [2] oe-core 2beb3170af6 ("systemd: if getty generator is disabled remove the generator, not the units") Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com> --- meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_257.4.bb | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)