[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Allow console input to be disabled

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Aug 11 10:36:00 CEST 2008


Dear Haavard,

In message <20080811082818.81187248BF at gemini.denx.de> I wrote:
> 
> > The board will most likely still boot, so the "end user" can use other
> > tools to fix the breakage.
> 
> How should he, now that console access is disabled?

Just to give you an example how we handle this in other places:

A similar dangerous operation is changing the console baudrate  -  if
you  set it to something your teminal cannot handle you have the same
problem. U-Boot tries to prevent this, as it enforces you to actually
input something at the new baudrate.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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