RFE: Enable autoboot strings by default

Bug #1870985 reported by Michael Johnson
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
u-boot (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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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_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR "delay"
CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR "stop"

The documentation for these settings is here: https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-raspberrypi/-/blob/master/doc/README.autoboot

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.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in u-boot (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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