[U-Boot] stuck after redirecting stdout to nc

[Ran Shalit]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Monday 02 January 2012 09:50:42 ran shalit wrote:
> > On uboot loading, I checking a specific environement (called
> consoleddev),
> > to decide to rediect console to nc or staying in serial.
> > I then see some strange behaviour:
> > if the environment tell uboot to redirect to net console, everything
> works
> > well, but only if the ethernet cable is connected. if it is not connected
> > then I see that the kernel is not loading.
>
> there could easily be a bug where netconsole does not work if the network
> is
> not available.  patches welcome to add timeouts.
> -mike
>
Do you think such bug is independent of architecture type ?