[U-Boot] [PATCH] At start of autoboot check, flush any pending RX bytes

[Robert Nelson]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:48:07AM -0600, Robert Nelson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 09:59:18AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > > Hi Craig,
> > > >
> > > > On 20 December 2015 at 19:07, Craig McQueen
> > > > <craig.mcqueen at innerrange.com> wrote:
> > > > > This is to avoid the boot sequence halting due to initial "junk"
> > > > > received on serial input.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Craig McQueen <craig.mcqueen at innerrange.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > I have found that on the BeagleBone Black, U-Boot occasionally
> halts at
> > > > > the U-Boot prompt at boot-up, whether power-up, warm external
> > > > > reset or software reset. I have seen other people report the same
> > > issue.
> > > > >
> > > > > This seems to be due to U-Boot receiving "junk" data on the serial
> > > > > console. The BeagleBone Black has a pull-down resistor which was
> > > > > apparently added to try to mitigate this issue, but it doesn't
> entirely
> > > > > fix it.
> > > >
> > > > I wonder if this can be fixed for that board only?
> > >
> > > No, and it's not -exactly- a that board only problem.  It's a HW design
> > > issue that can show up elsewhere too.  I _think_ however in this case
> > > the answer would be to migrate to perhaps CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED_CTRLC
> as
> > > that's one of the reason various other boards use that set of options.
> > >
> > > I would suggest bringing this up on the beaglebone list to see what the
> > > various people that ship and support these boards think, thanks!
> > >
> >
> > I actually enabled this feature this week by default for beagleboard.org
> :
> >
> > diff --git a/configs/am335x_evm_defconfig b/configs/am335x_evm_defconfig
> > index 27cb881..8699953 100644
> > --- a/configs/am335x_evm_defconfig
> > +++ b/configs/am335x_evm_defconfig
> > @@ -3,7 +3,10 @@ CONFIG_TARGET_AM335X_EVM=y
> >  CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR=0x82000000
> >  CONFIG_SPL=y
> >  CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R=y
> > -CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS="NAND"
> > +CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED=y
> > +CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT="Press SPACE to abort autoboot in %d seconds\n"
> > +CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR="d"
> > +CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR=" "
> >  # CONFIG_CMD_IMLS is not set
> >  # CONFIG_CMD_FLASH is not set
> >  CONFIG_CMD_GPIO=y
> >
> > It'll take time to replace older images but on target users can just:
> >
> > cd /opt/scripts/tools/developers/
> > git pull
> > sudo ./update_bootloader.sh
> >
> > U-Boot SPL 2016.01-00001-g4eb802e (Jan 13 2016 - 11:14:31)
> > Trying to boot from MMC
> > bad magic
> >
> >
> > U-Boot 2016.01-00001-g4eb802e (Jan 13 2016 - 11:14:31 -0600), Build:
> > jenkins-github_Bootloader-Builder-313
> >
> >        Watchdog enabled
> > I2C:   ready
> > DRAM:  512 MiB
> > Reset Source: Global external warm reset has occurred.
> > Reset Source: Power-on reset has occurred.
> > MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1
> > Using default environment
> >
> > Net:   <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
> > cpsw, usb_ether
> > Press SPACE to abort autoboot in 2 seconds
> > =>
>
> Space eh? OK.  Now would be the time to push this upstream as the merge
> window just opened :)
>

That seemed like the most common when i looked at it..

grep -R "AUTOBOOT_PROMPT" configs/*defconfig

Do you want me to hit all 3 bbb related configs?

beagleboard.org uses: am335x_evm_defconfig

I know some users use:
am335x_boneblack_defconfig
am335x_boneblack_vboot_defconfig

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/