Dear Simon Glass, In message <capnjgz3wzo4nkp2gjkbs_r8awmrackagfdqrxrjg5mniykx...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > The situation this occurs is when you paste characters into a serial > terminal connected to U-Boot. This is a pretty common requirement. Yes > you can manually select each line and paste it but that is a pain.
But that's exactly how it's supposed to work. Depending on hardware that may or may not be FIFOs available to buffer such asynchronous input, and I rather see limited, but consistent behaviour, instead of fancy stuff that works oin one board but not on another. > With this patch it is possible to paste a series of 'setenv' commands, > for example. If you want to run multi-line command sequences, then load and run a script. In the special case of setting environment variables, consider using featurs like "env import" instead. > This caused an awful lot of confusion here because characters would be > silently dropped within the command line (normally about 16 chars from > the end). Then the system would not boot. It is really not a friendly > experience. There should never be character loss when sending data on a line by line base. Even the slowest processors we support are fast enough to deal with that. Multi-line input has never been supported. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim. -- Edsger Dijkstra _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot