I'm using U-Boot 1.3.4. When building I've defined "CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE" and "CFG_DEVICE_NULLDEV". My board is an at91sam9261ek.
My U-Boot environment looks like this via "printenv":
bootargs=mem=64M console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=atmel_nand:4M(kernel)ro,-(rootfs) root=/dev/mtdblock1 rw rootfstype=jffs2 bootcmd=nand read 0x22200000 0x00000000 0x0019757C; bootm 0x22200000 bootdelay=1 baudrate=115200 silent=1
However when I boot my device I see u-boot spiting out the same stuff it does even if "silent" isn't selected, as well as linux but I'm focusing on getting u- boot working as the README / README.silent suggests first.
I know I've seen a few others on this group with the exact same problem as me, and the official response was "RTFM", but, unless I'm missing something hidden in the README's I need a little help, or there is a bug with u-boot.
Anyone can suggest something? Should "silent" be set to a specific variable? Is the stuff I see below normal for "silent", and it is working as it should?
This is what I get on the hyperterminal with the above configuration:
U-Boot 1.3.4 (Sep 30 2010 - 12:33:45)
DRAM: 64 MB NAND: 256 MiB DataFlash:AT45DB642 Nb pages: 8192 Page Size: 1056 Size= 8650752 bytes Logical address: 0xC0000000 Area 0: C0000000 to C00041FF (RO) Bootstrap Area 1: C0004200 to C00083FF Environment Area 2: C0008400 to C0041FFF (RO) U-Boot Area 3: C0042000 to C0251FFF Kernel Area 4: C0252000 to C083FFFF FS In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
NAND read: device 0 offset 0x0, size 0x19757c 1668476 bytes read: OK ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 22200000 ... Image Name: Angstrom/2.6.30/at91sam9261ek Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 1668412 Bytes = 1.6 MB Load Address: 20008000 Entry Point: 20008000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Loading Kernel Image ... OK OK
Starting kernel ...
Uncompressing Linux............................................................. ............................................... [[[.SNIP.]]]