[U-Boot] [REGRESSION] commit b502611b51... "Change env_get_char from a..." breaks imx31_phycore

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Sep 5 20:54:30 CEST 2008


Dear Guennadi,

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809051954400.5482 at axis700.grange> you wrote:
> 
>     Change env_get_char from a global function ptr to a function
...
> found by bisection and causes at least the imx31_phycore board to break. 
> The boot process becomes slow, printenv is very slow too, booting does not 
> always come to the bootdelay countdown, tftp wtops working too. Reverting 
> this commit from the current HEAD fixes the problem.

Note that this is not a problem with this specific commit, then,  but
with  your  own  board  port. We already reverted this commit once to
give board maintainers enough time to clean up their  code.  We  will
not revert that commit again.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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