the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 7ef53364ae202363e4260ffc8e306a0ae10db0c6 Author: Kyösti Mälkki kyosti.malkki@gmail.com Date: Tue Feb 7 20:50:22 2012 +0200
Don't loop infinitely long on serial comm failures
If serial uart (8250/16x50) takes abnormally long to respond, give up on logging to serial console and instead let the system boot.
Also reference bit in LSR register with correct name.
Change-Id: I3796efc3e8690425f04a130af4bc99541b64d335 Signed-off-by: Kyösti Mälkki kyosti.malkki@gmail.com
Build-Tested: build bot (Jenkins) at Tue Feb 7 20:27:45 2012, giving +1 Reviewed-By: Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se at Tue Feb 7 20:37:20 2012, giving +2 See http://review.coreboot.org/611 for details.
-gerrit