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authorLuca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>2016-04-18 23:41:30 +0200
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2016-04-19 00:12:23 +0200
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raspberrypi, raspberrypi2: document the two consoles (UART+HDMI)
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>
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@@ -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.
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