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Ross Burton 11a005cae7 systemd: enable getty generator by default
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")

(From OE-Core rev: af15f9d1609708443ed036fdb611cea92f566620)

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-04-23 19:52:58 +01:00
bitbake bitbake: parse/ConfHandler: Add warning for deprecated whitespace usage 2025-04-16 17:41:51 +01:00
contrib contrib/git-hooks: add a sendemail-validate example hook that adds FROM: lines to outgoing patch emails 2020-12-30 14:01:07 +00:00
documentation migration-guides/release-notes-5.2.rst: add missing cves 2025-04-23 19:50:30 +01:00
meta systemd: enable getty generator by default 2025-04-23 19:52:58 +01:00
meta-poky poky-bleeding: Drop debug code 2025-04-10 11:07:15 +01:00
meta-selftest test_efi_plugin_plain_systemd-boot: don't set console 2025-04-17 11:03:22 +01:00
meta-skeleton multilib-example.conf: explicitly overwrite the BASELIB 2025-01-11 18:37:14 +00:00
meta-yocto-bsp genericarm64: add ttyPS1 for KV260 2025-04-23 19:52:01 +01:00
scripts send-error-report: improve debugging 2025-04-20 10:11:16 +01:00
.b4-config b4-config: Add basic support for b4 contribution workflow 2025-02-06 10:40:55 +00:00
.gitignore vscode: drop .vscode folder 2024-02-19 11:34:33 +00:00
.templateconf meta-poky/conf: move default templates to conf/templates/default/ 2022-09-01 10:07:02 +01:00
LICENSE meta/lib+scripts: Convert to SPDX license headers 2019-05-09 16:31:55 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS.md MAINTAINERS.md: fix markdown style issues 2025-02-05 12:49:56 +00:00
MEMORIAM MEMORIAM: Add recognition for contributors no longer with us 2020-01-30 15:22:35 +00:00
oe-init-build-env oe-init-build-env: generate .vscode from template 2024-02-19 11:34:33 +00:00
README.hardware.md README: Move to using markdown as the format 2021-06-16 16:33:18 +01:00
README.md Add README link to README.poky 2021-07-19 18:07:21 +01:00
README.OE-Core.md README.OE-Core.md: fix markdown style issues 2025-02-05 12:49:56 +00:00
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