[U-Boot] silent console with nand

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Scott Wood,

In message <4FBA6F26.2060903 at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> > There may be problems with your current implementation, like the
> > environment not being available soon enough.  You can test this by
> > changing the console bausrate using setenv / saveenv.  Cn you still
> > see all boot messages?
> 
> The environment is often not available early enough when booting from
> NAND.  CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST was meant to address this, but I only see one
> board using it so far.  CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST also may need some fixing
> regarding where saveenv writes the environment, if there's a bad block
> in the preceding U-Boot image.

I would think that more boards are using this technology; they
probably pre-date the instroduction of CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST and
do not use CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST but rather code this manually.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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