[U-Boot] is minicom still discouraged as the serial comms program?

[Måns Rullgård]

Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 06:52:38AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>>   i know that minicom has been discouraged for quite some time WRT
>> u-boot, is that still the case? and what was the flaw with minicom,
>> anyway? and is there any problem with picocom, which seems to work for
>> me just fine.
>
> As far as I know there's no real problem with minicom, just that it's a
> pain to use in general, but that's just my opinion.

It's an opinion shared by many.  Minicom appears to be mainly intended
for use with an actual modem, and when there isn't one involved, those
features tend to get in the way.

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Måns Rullgård