raspberrypi, raspberrypi2: document the two consoles (UART+HDMI)
authorLuca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:41:30 +0000 (23:41 +0200)
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:12:23 +0000 (00:12 +0200)
The defconfigs for the Raspberry Pi boards start a console on HDMI in
addition to the classic one on UART. Document this feature in the
readme.

Cc: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
board/raspberrypi/readme.txt

index b21a75a6ee787bde6c98c2a4e36ec214a63c0696..896be2d8a46447626c0b2adcee1552db04fc9a8c 100644 (file)
@@ -74,4 +74,6 @@ Copy the bootable "sdcard.img" onto an SD card with "dd":
   $ sudo dd if=output/images/sdcard.img of=/dev/sdX
 
 Insert the SDcard into your Raspberry Pi, and power it up. Your new system
-should come up now.
+should come up now and start two consoles: one on the serial port on
+the P1 header, one on the HDMI output where you can login using a USB
+keyboard.