In message 40E95290.3040607@freescale.com you wrote:
the attached patch adds support for the Total5100's and Total5200's LCD screen. By default only the logo is displayed because the environment variable "console" is set to "serial". By clearing this variable stdout and stderr will be displayed on the LCD. The patch should be applied after the initial (20040701) and the second patch (20040702).
Can you please fix this patch to use the standard console device mechanism of U-Boot? Instead of introducing a new "console" variable. the standard mechanism of assigning to the stdin / stdout / stderr streams should be used.
I just learned that there are already other bad examples using such a "console" setting:
File: Board: Maintainer: board/eltec/elppc/misc.c ELPPC Frank Gottschling board/netphone/phone_console.c NETPHONE Pantelis Antoniou drivers/cfb_console.c ? Frank Gottschling
Frank & Pantelis, can you please submit patches to clean this up, too? Let's get rid of this "console" stuff before anybody else copies it. [Sorry that this escaped me so far.]
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk