[coreboot] add optional 'press enter to start the busybox shell' pause to LAB

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Fri Feb 22 19:59:04 CET 2008


On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:48:46AM -0700, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 21/02/08 12:23 -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > This patch adds an optional delay before the LAB environment kexecs the on-disk
> > kernel. This allows entering the busybox shell, which can be useful for
> > maintenance and debugging. The delay is configurable from kconfig, and defaults
> > to 5 seconds.
> > 
> > The patch enables CONFIG_ASH_READ_TIMEOUT in the uclibc configuration because
> > the 'read' command in the ash shell does not support the '-t' timeout parameter
> > otherwise.
> > 
> > It also changes the default for including a statically compiled copy of kexec
> > into the LAB payload to no, because this makes the payload too large for 1MB
> > rom chips.
> > 
> > Tested on real hardware.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org>
> Acked-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com>

r125.

Thanks,
Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator




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