[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Enable device and console for ARM.

[Woodruff, Richard]

I was doing a little looking and I noticed that gd->have_console was not
being set (is normally set in console_init_f() ).  Further greps of the code
for ARM show its only used in common/console.c/ctrlc() .  Being that the ARM
generic code never sets it (nor is it done anywhere else), the function
probably didn't work before.  I just changed my code (patch I sent) to do :
	Console_init_f();		/* set have_console = 1 */
	Console_init_r();  	/* complete console init */

I won't test this till tomorrow but it is obvious that have_console should
be set.  I can resubmit the patch if you like, or just know to add this.

* One other comment on this enabling the console patch...it should fix a bug
which is in common/boot_cmd.c/read_record() . read_record currently EXPECTS
syscalls_tbl to have been allocated, and it dereferences the table looking
for a console device.  Prior to this patch the ARM code failed to ever
allocate this small table at all.  So, it was likely a dereference of a
uninitilized structure.

Regards,

Richard W.




-----Original Message-----
From: Woodruff, Richard 
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 5:05 PM
To: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: 'Wolfgang Denk'
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Enable device and console for ARM.

Hi,

This update enables the standard device abstraction for ARM and enables the
console member.  It also initializes bi_baudrate for ARM.  The superficial
effect of this is coninfo works with out hanging a system.  More importantly
it enables devices, including the console.

The only little bit stopping some of this from working before is that
common/devices.c was written such that it was not relocation agnostic
(Current ARM code do not do the selective relocation which the PPC ports
appear to do).  Everything I've tried so far still works as before (or
better), and the console seems to work on my ARM board.

Regards,

Richard Woodruff