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

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 06:03:46PM -0700, CAIannello 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.

This has nothing to do with U-Boot. Linux typically uses the file /etc/inittab to specify whether to spawn login processes on serial lines. Look at that, along with the Linux man page for "init".