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From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:20:04 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] pxe: automatically add console= to bootargs
 when not specified in append
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Hi,

On 08/01/2014 09:46 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> From: Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us>
> 
> if there is a console variable in the u-boot environment and not one on
> the append line from syslinux config add what is in the environment to
> the bootargs.
> 
> This is necessary to allow distros to have a single extlinux/extlinux.conf
> file which will work on multiple boards, even if these boards have different
> consoles (e.g. ttyS0 vs ttyAMA0).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

I asked Dennis for its Signed-off-by for this, and instead I got this:

> NAK, I was planning to drop the patch entirely, while its useful in
> some cases, it breaks things like plymouth working, as well it will
> force anaconda installs to always be text over the serial port.
> wandboard and cubox-i for instance boot happily without a console= line
> and you get plymouth on the screen when video is initialised. having it
> add the console line if u-boot has the console set to serial would be
> okay. I think it needs some more thought and careful planning.
>
> Dennis

So lets drop this one for now.

Regards,

Hans