[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/5] Urgent fixes for misconverted CONFIG_BOOTDELAY

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Tom,

In message <20160613124715.GT11619 at bill-the-cat> you wrote:
> 
> > BTW, would you consider changing the default of BOOTDELAY
> > from 0 to 3 ?
> 
> I'm going to move it over to 2 as I want to encourage people in general
> to move over to the distro defaults values.

I'm not sure if such a low value is a good idea.  There are a few
boards out there that use USB serial adapters for console, which are
board powered (vs. bus powered).  That means they start registering
with a host only when the board powers up.  With a 2 second timeout it
is usually impossible to break into the interactive mode, as you
cannot connect fast enough to the /dev/ttyUSB*.  Just my $0.02

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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