[U-Boot-Users] Loads function and flow control.

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <03May26.133048adt.7307 at dragon.appliedmicro.ns.ca> you wrote:
> 
> I can't say off the top of my head.  I'm using a 16 bit strataflash
> E28F128J3A in x8 mode, with a custom version of strataflash.c, on
> a custom-built Virtex-II Pro development board, with a *very* hacked
> down version of PPCboot that runs from about 50K of block RAM,
> so there are lots of places where I might have mucked things up.
> An 'interesting' configuration....

:-)

> I hacked it to work by changing the loads code to echo a newline after 
> the write to the flash has completed, and configuring kermit to
> wait until it sees a newline before it sends a new line.  This
> works for me, so I stopped looking into the problem.

Ummm... "loads" allows to echo each input character depending on  the
setting  of  the "loads_echo" environment variable. This is something
which is used by "cu", IIRC.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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