[U-Boot-Users] How to pause u-boot after serial init
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Thu Jan 6 18:15:41 CET 2005
In message <1105027245.41d677cnishant.subs at myrealbox.com> you wrote:
>
> I have a query regarding my custom board (8266 based PMC card, 512K boot fl
> ash, Himem (top boot), 32 MB main flash, 128 MB SDRAM, u-boot 1.1.1).
>
> Will you please use a shorter linelength, say 70 characters or so as
> suggested by the netiquette? Thanks.
>
> When trying to bring up the serial port, I want to stop execution after ser
> ial initialization. So, I inserted an infinite loop ('hang') in init_sequ
> ence[] in lib_ppc/board.c.
I don't understand what this would be good for, but if you really
want to do this...
> The problem is that a 'hang' placed just after console_init_f works but I c
> an't see any display on Hype Terrminal, because no prints have happened y
> et.
That's what you asked for...
> And a 'hang' placed after 'display options' dosen't even load! The data lin
> es (seen on a Logic Analyzer) show all 0s
What do you mean by "does not load"? And which data lines are you
talking about, and when do you sample these data lines?
> Can anybody please shed some light on this problem? Any help / hints will b
> e greatly appreciated.
I have no idea what you're trying to do, but attaching a BDI2000 and
running the code under GDB is probably the fastest way to find out
what's going on on your system.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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