Hi all,

I have gone through the kernel/kernel/printk.c file. And i have the following questions..

I have some rough idea of several things, but i need to conform them

 

1) What is a console driver? --> My idea is it allows the kernel to input or output the characters

                                              to or from a particular device.

2) Why so many command-line consoles are needed? --> (if first qn is right...why cant u use single

                                               console to several devices)

3) What is a boot console & real console?

 

4) How to know how many number of consoles are running at a time?

 

5) In the boot command line we will pass one console name "console=ttyXXX",

other than that where the remaining consoles are being registered?

 

Please answer these questions so that i can have furthur understanding

Thank you all..
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With regards,
Sandeep Kumar Anantapalli,