Hi Vladimir, On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > U-boot on coreboot assumes that serial port is always available and > improperly interprets missing ones as stream of 0xff. What would be the > proper way to handle this? Is it acceptable to probe at it's address > whether we have a valid ns8250/ns16550 device (we can read back the > divisor and compare with what we have set) and dropping the serial if > none is available?
Typically we can deal with this using environment variables - e.g. stdin/stdout. However, if there is no serial port, what is the intended console? The VGA? I think probing is maybe acceptable. Another way might be to create a new device tree alongside link.dts. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
