[U-Boot] U-Boot 1.3.4 CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE Does Not Work?

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I'm using U-Boot 1.3.4.  When building I've defined "CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE" and 
"CFG_DEVICE_NULLDEV".  My board is an at91sam9261ek.

My U-Boot environment looks like this via "printenv": 

bootargs=mem=64M console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=atmel_nand:4M(kernel)ro,-(rootfs) 
root=/dev/mtdblock1 rw rootfstype=jffs2
bootcmd=nand read 0x22200000 0x00000000 0x0019757C; bootm 0x22200000
bootdelay=1
baudrate=115200
silent=1

However when I boot my device I see u-boot spiting out the same stuff it does 
even if "silent" isn't selected, as well as linux but I'm focusing on getting u-
boot working as the README / README.silent suggests first.

I know I've seen a few others on this group with the exact same problem as me, 
and the official response was "RTFM", but, unless I'm missing something hidden 
in the README's I need a little help, or there is a bug with u-boot.

Anyone can suggest something?  Should "silent" be set to a specific variable?  
Is the stuff I see below normal for "silent", and it is working as it should?

This is what I get on the hyperterminal with the above configuration:

U-Boot 1.3.4 (Sep 30 2010 - 12:33:45)

DRAM:  64 MB
NAND:  256 MiB
DataFlash:AT45DB642
Nb pages:   8192
Page Size:   1056
Size= 8650752 bytes
Logical address: 0xC0000000
Area 0: C0000000 to C00041FF (RO) Bootstrap
Area 1: C0004200 to C00083FF      Environment
Area 2: C0008400 to C0041FFF (RO) U-Boot
Area 3: C0042000 to C0251FFF      Kernel
Area 4: C0252000 to C083FFFF      FS
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

NAND read: device 0 offset 0x0, size 0x19757c
 1668476 bytes read: OK
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 22200000 ...
   Image Name:   Angstrom/2.6.30/at91sam9261ek
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    1668412 Bytes =  1.6 MB
   Load Address: 20008000
   Entry Point:  20008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux.............................................................
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