Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751975AbdDBUrp (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2017 16:47:45 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:22801 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751738AbdDBUrn (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2017 16:47:43 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.36,266,1486454400"; d="scan'208";a="1150010867" From: Andi Kleen To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] minitty: a minimal TTY layer alternative for embedded systems References: <20170401222119.25106-1-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 13:47:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20170401222119.25106-1-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Sat, 1 Apr 2017 18:21:14 -0400") Message-ID: <87pogur0y9.fsf@firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 474 Lines: 17 Nicolas Pitre writes: > > Of course, making it "mini" means there are limitations to what it does: > > - This supports serial ports only. No VT's, no PTY's. No PTYs seems like a big limitation. This means no sshd? > But again, most small embedded systems simply don't need those things. They don't need a (debug) way to login over the network? Hard to believe. Most of the other stuff we could indeed do without even on larger systems. -Andi