[U-Boot] [PATCH] snowball: Clear UART RX FIFO

Ramesh Chandrasekaran ramesh.chandrasekaran at stericsson.com
Fri Sep 14 08:17:25 CEST 2012


Without usb-serial cable plugged at this stage, some
garbage is seen in UART RX FIFO, which blocks autoboot
progress. The fix makes sure to empty the RX FIFO,
before we wait for user input to interrupt autoboot.

Signed-off-by: Ramesh Chandrasekaran <ramesh.chandrasekaran at stericsson.com>
---
 board/st-ericsson/snowball/snowball.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/board/st-ericsson/snowball/snowball.c b/board/st-ericsson/snowball/snowball.c
index 8c743c0..e750df1 100644
--- a/board/st-ericsson/snowball/snowball.c
+++ b/board/st-ericsson/snowball/snowball.c
@@ -253,6 +253,10 @@ int board_late_init(void)
 	if ((raise_ab8500_gpio16() < 0))
 		printf("error: cant' raise GPIO16\n");
 
+	/* empty UART RX FIFO */
+	while (tstc())
+		(void) getc();
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.5.4



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