[U-Boot] Strange / Unreadable console output

[Markus Hubig]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:22:11AM +0200, Andreas Bießmann wrote:
> On 27.07.12 11:16, Markus Hubig wrote:
> > one minor Problem I often read about in this list is some crappy / unreadable
> > console output at beginning of the U-Boot start procedure. Now I have the same
> > "visual" Problem.
> > 
> > | H�NAND:  128 MiB
> > | *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
> > | 
> > | In:    serial
> > | Out:   serial
> > | Err:   serial
> > | Net:   macb0
> > | macb0: Starting autonegotiation...
> > | macb0: Autonegotiation timed out (status=0x7849)
> > | macb0: link down (status: 0x7849)
> > | Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
> > | ...

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> > 
> > Has anyone an ideea how to fix this? Or what's the cause of it? Is it even
> > related to u-boot or is it something at91bootstrap is doing wrong?
> 
> can you please check http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/107896/
> 
> It seems this patch was set to 'Accepted' but never applied to the
> master repository. Unfortunately this got lost in nirvana end of last
> year. I will apply it in any case but can you please check if it fixes
> your problem?

Unfortunately not ... but it dosen't do any harm.

Cheers, Markus