[Bug 702574] Re: getty should be started automatically on serial port when serial console is set on kernel command line

[Oliver Grawert]

the attached job works fine in all environments i have tested it, but 2
would be very necessary on devices like the nexus7 where the bootloader
prefixes the kernel commandline with its own args ... (on nexus7 there
is an empty "console=" with no content the bootloader puts in place, so
our console=ttyFooBar would always be the last one...)

1 is not critical imho

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Title:
  getty should be started automatically on serial port when serial
  console is set on kernel command line

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: upstart

  If a user passes console=ttySXXX on the kernel commandline to get a
  serial console, they will see the boot happen on the serial port, but
  not be given a chance to login on the serial port.

  We should ship an upstart job that starts a getty on the serial
  console in this case.

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