In message <200207082127.16518.ADharankar at ATTBI.Com> you wrote: > > This question is common to both ppcboot and ppc-linux. > The ppcboot I am using is 1.1.5 and Linux kernel 2.4.18. > > If there is no console connected to the serial console port, > is it true that a thread sending output to it hangs? If this is
No, this is NOT true. Why should it? There is no flow control used - neither in the PPCBoot nor in the Linux UART drivers... > I have a MPC8260ADS based board, and see the above ...at least not in the standard MPC8xx and MPC8260 UART drivers. > behavior under ppcboot. Under Linux using a BDI debugger > the thread sending output to the console hangs. Perhaps You must be doing something wrong. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
