[U-Boot] [ARM] Environment variables not available during console initialisation?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Guennadi Liakhovetski,

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0901150827340.4456 at axis700.grange> you wrote:
> 
> a user is reporting, that setting "silent" and "baudrate" environment 
> variables on ARM have no effect on the console bahaviour. I didn't test 
> this but looking at the code it looks logical - the console is initialised 
> before environment variables are read. Question - is this a bug that has 

This is obviously wrong, as  the  console  baudrate  is  set  *after*
reading  the  "baudrate"  environment  variable  -  at  least for all
conforming  ports.  There  may  be  broken   implementations   around
(especially  when booting from NAND), but these are just what I said:
broken.

> to be fixed, or is there no good fix for this, because we really want to 
> have console initialised ASAP - before the driver for the environment 
> storage is initialised?

Yes, this is a bug that has to be fixed, you obviously must be able
to access the environment before you can correctly configure the
console port.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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