[U-Boot] ads5121 - remove PSC serial console support

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Oct 31 15:39:58 CET 2009


Dear Angelo,

In message <523536.75919.qm at web23108.mail.ird.yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
> I'm trying to reduce boot time and i don't want to omit anything!

Hm.. did you do any profiling and are you really sure that the initial
console messages really contribute a significant amount to the boot
time?

On the MPC5121ADS board, U-Boot prints some 340 characters before you
can turn off the conssole using the usual methods. At 115200 bps this
takes about 30 milliseconds.

Are you really sure that it makes sense to optimize on thislevel yet?
Have you solved / accelerated all the other slow parts yet?

> I know that console is fundamental, but i need to disable it. After some
> modifies it seems like u-boot execute an infinite loop, waiting for unknown
> something.

Attach a debugger. It should be trivial to see where U-Boot is
spinning.

> I suppose that should be a way to remove it completely. 

I am pretty sure that what you are trying to do makes little sense.

> --- Ven 30/10/09, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> ha scritto:
>
> Da: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>

Please also make sure to read
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Do not top post / full quote.  Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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