Bug#969070: $console handling might result in unbootable system
On 04.09.20 09:54, Andre Heider wrote:
> On 04/09/2020 09:20, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>> On 04.09.20 07:20, Andre Heider wrote:
>>> On 04/09/2020 03:10, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>>> On 2020-08-28, Andre Heider wrote:
>>>>> Stats:
>>>>> Going by u-boot upstream, only 17 of +700 boards set $console (grep
>>>>> for
>>
>> You seem
>>
>>>>> CONFIG_DEFAULT_CONSOLE, which too is deprecated).
>>
>> I found no CONFIG_DEFAULT_CONSOLE is deprecated?
>
> That's just by going by
> - only a few configs use it
> - it's listed in scripts/config_whitelist.txt, so knobs not yet
> converted to Kconfig
>
>> On the Wandboard Quad which is one of the elder boards we have:
>>
>> => echo $console
>> ttymxc0
>>
>> It is defined here:
>>
>> include/configs/wandboard.h:48: "console=ttymxc0\0" \
>
> That...
>
> <snip>
>
>> include/configs/odroid.h
>> include/configs/odroid_xu3.h
>> include/configs/s5p_goni.h
>> include/configs/s5pc210_universal.h
>> include/configs/trats.h
>> include/configs/trats2.h
>
> and all of these are 32bit arm boards, which is likely a can of worms to
> open at this point in time. I'm not sure we want to go there, that's why
> I proposed to only change the 64bit arm bootscript.
>
> Thanks,
> Andre
Which armv8 boards have a problem with upstream U-Boot?
E.g. your example in include/configs/mvebu_armada-37xx.h does not exist
in U-Boot v2020.07
Best regards
Heinrich
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