[PATCH v2] PowerPC: boot: Parse chosen/cmdline-timeout parameter

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Sep 23 19:43:43 EST 2014


On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 10:56 +0200, Simon Kågström wrote:
> Hi again!
> 
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 16:40:06 +0200
> Simon Kågström <simon.kagstrom at netinsight.net> wrote:
> 
> > A 5 second timeout during boot might be too long, so make it
> > configurable. Run the loop at least once to let the user stop the boot
> > by holding a key pressed.
> 
> Sorry to bother the list, but it would be nice if this patch could
> trickle down into some tree if it's seen as acceptable. So consider
> this a ping :-)

Yeah looks sane to me.

Personally I've never used that feature, I guess I don't have many (any?)
machines with real serial which seems to be a requirement for it to work.

I'll put it in my next tomorrow unless Scott or anyone else objects.

cheers





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