RFE: Enable autoboot strings by default
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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u-boot (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is a feature request as opposed to a bug.
I would be super handy to have the following settings enabled by default in the Raspberry Pi Ubuntu u-boot package.
CONFIG_
CONFIG_
CONFIG_
The documentation for these settings is here: https:/
Many of us using Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi are using the serial ports for connecting various devices/hats. As Ubuntu currently ships, any character received on the serial port will halt the boot process. Devices, such as GPS receivers, typically have a regular stream of output that, when attached at boot, cause u-boot to halt.
By setting the above settings (or something similar) it will require a specific string to be entered to halt u-boot, instead of any character.
Reconfiguring u-boot to not abort on any character is quite hard and poorly documented.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.