Hello,

Well running though the commands on my ARM based board I noticed that coninfo hung my system. After a little code inspection I see that the generic ARM code in /lib_arm/board.c fails to init up what appears to be a few fairly useful u-boot features (device, console, and syscall). After some fairly simple changes, I was able to add in device_init() and console_init_r() into board.c . This results in the device and console abstractions working. The code size doesn't grow but by a few bytes. Getting syscall working is a bit more work than I'm willing to try just now.

Its there any reason why this was not done for ARM? From my brief inspection they seem pretty useful. I'll send a patch for it later, it really only a couple lines to board.c and devices.c .

Regards,

Richard W.