Hi all, I've been trouble shooting the problem of u-Boot not coming up when serial terminal is not connected. It turned out that when software CONFIG_SERIAL_SOFTWARE_FIFO is defined, putc will wait till terminal is ready to receive the data.

From u-boot/cpu/ppc4xx/serial.c, line 676 void serial_buffered_putc (const char c) { /* Wait for CTS */ #if defined(CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG) while (!(in8 (ACTING_UART0_BASE + UART_MSR) & 0x10)) WATCHDOG_RESET (); #else while (!(in8 (ACTING_UART0_BASE + UART_MSR) & 0x10)); #endif serial_putc (c); }

Is the while loop necessary?

printf's are ok because it uses serial_buffered_puts which eventually calls serial_putc with out waiting for CTS.

Thank you

Brian

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