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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Force a 2s delay on startup to allow bypassing /dev/env0.
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 19:50:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bom1yzah.fsf@intrepid.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120506171638.GT4141@pengutronix.de> (Sascha Hauer's message of "Sun, 6 May 2012 19:16:38 +0200")

Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> writes:

> Being able to interrupt before environment processing is a good thing to
> have, the delay though is not acceptable because it would increase the
> boot time on some systems by 400%. It should work without the delay
> aswell.

Actually the delay is a bit problematic for me as well.
Unfortunately the boot code has to initialize the serial port, clearing
the incoming FIFO. This means I can't "queue" the ^C character, barebox
has to wait for it (maybe not for the whole 2 seconds).

Or am I mistaken?
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-06 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-05 21:26 Krzysztof Halasa
2012-05-06 17:16 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-05-06 17:50   ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2012-05-06 18:08     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-05-07  0:14     ` Marc Reilly

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