[U-Boot] u-boot hangs waiting for serial input

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Dipanjan,

In message <CAEK-7JK-c5+krRCmQZ45J2Nf3HRQtxLb4hvm2sdcrBQ=ErS1dw at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> I have compiled an older version of u-boot for ARM versatilepb board and
> booted in qemu as: qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -m 128M -nographic
> -kernel flash.bin
> 
> It boots fine, basic commans like `printenv` works. However, issuing
> `loads` makes the bootloader wait indefinitely. No keypress works. The
> prompt comes back if the command aborted by pressing Ctrl+C. I am not sure
> if it is u-boot or qemu is misbehaving. Any suggestion?

This is the correct, expected behaviour. "loads" starts an S-Revord
download over the serial line, so U-Boot is waiting for and readind
the input which it expects t be in SREC format.

What did you think "loads" would do?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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