system: add option to configure TERM variable

This option is useful for cases where the terminal isn't a bare serial
vt100, but e.g. a linux tty with more features.

Signed-off-by: Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>

diff --git a/system/Config.in b/system/Config.in
index 622b2427ff7fee4c616a0203d9d2897d226cd521..a557ea035ff4558644b99597d81efbdcb114abed 100644 (file)
--- a/system/Config.in
+++ b/system/Config.in
@@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ config BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_BAUDRATE
        default "57600"         if BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_BAUDRATE_57600
        default "115200"        if BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_BAUDRATE_115200
 
+config BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_TERM
+       string "Value to assign the TERM environment variable"
+       default "vt100"
+       help
+         Specify a TERM type.
+
 config BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_REMOUNT_ROOTFS_RW
        bool "remount root filesystem read-write during boot"
        default y

diff --git a/system/system.mk b/system/system.mk
index 4185202b730c0f52f880a67cc08df2961eceabfa..353d0ba1b5d9bc0f795599e742ace130843b5a94 100644 (file)
--- a/system/system.mk
+++ b/system/system.mk
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME:=$(call qstrip,$(BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME))
 TARGET_GENERIC_ISSUE:=$(call qstrip,$(BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_ISSUE))
 TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY:=$(call qstrip,$(BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_PORT))
 TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_BAUDRATE:=$(call qstrip,$(BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_BAUDRATE))
+TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_TERM:=$(call qstrip,$(BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_TERM))
 
 target-generic-hostname:
        mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/etc
@@ -14,13 +15,13 @@ target-generic-issue:
        echo "$(TARGET_GENERIC_ISSUE)" > $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/issue
 
 target-generic-getty-busybox:
-       $(SED) '/# GENERIC_SERIAL$$/s~^.*#~$(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY)::respawn:/sbin/getty -L $(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY) $(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_BAUDRATE) vt100 #~' \
+       $(SED) '/# GENERIC_SERIAL$$/s~^.*#~$(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY)::respawn:/sbin/getty -L $(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY) $(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_BAUDRATE) $(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_TERM) #~' \
                $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/inittab
 
 # In sysvinit inittab, the "id" must not be longer than 4 bytes, so we
 # skip the "tty" part and keep only the remaining.
 target-generic-getty-sysvinit:
-       $(SED) '/# GENERIC_SERIAL$$/s~^.*#~$(shell echo $(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY) | tail -c+4)::respawn:/sbin/getty -L $(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY) $(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_BAUDRATE) vt100 #~' \
+       $(SED) '/# GENERIC_SERIAL$$/s~^.*#~$(shell echo $(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY) | tail -c+4)::respawn:/sbin/getty -L $(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY) $(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_BAUDRATE) $(TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_TERM) #~' \
                $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/inittab
 
 # Find commented line, if any, and remove leading '#'s