pmaports/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs-hook-console-shell
Caleb Connolly dd28314ba2
postmarketos-initramfs: debug-shell 3.0 (MR 5000)
This incorprates the debug-shell functionality directly into the
initramfs, so it's no longer necessary to build and boot a custom
initramfs in order to debug your device.

Additionally, the behaviour of the debug-shell is entirely reworked, It
now creates an ACM serial gadget which can be accessed via any normal
terminal emulator (picocom, minicom, etc; or PuTTY on windows). Rather
than just invoking sh, the debug-shell now creates a respawning getty on
both the new virtual console and the active console (this will either be
the UART console or tty0/1).

It is necessary to spawn these shells via getty since the logging rework
means we can no longer assume that stdin/out/err reference a TTY.

In addition to the above, it is now possible to trigger a log dump by
holding volume up during boot. This can be useful for helping users
debug their devices if the issue doesn't result in a failure that can be
detected in the initramfs.

With these changes, the console-shell and debug-shell hook packages are
reduced to only adding the additional tools/features. console-shell is
still required for fbkeyboard, and debug-shell for the setup_usb_storage
tool.

Co-Developed-by: Clayton Craft <craftyguy@postmarketos.org>
Signed-off-by: Caleb Connolly <caleb@postmarketos.org>
2024-06-18 12:35:05 -07:00
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APKBUILD postmarketos-initramfs: debug-shell 3.0 (MR 5000) 2024-06-18 12:35:05 -07:00
console-shell.files postmarketos-mkinitfs-hook-console-shell: change path to dejavu font (MR 3521) 2022-10-10 18:53:37 -07:00
console-shell.modules main/postmarketos-mkinitfs-hook-console-shell: Add support for rotated framebuffers (MR 1422) 2020-07-21 11:14:47 +02:00