[syslinux] extlinux 6.03 serial console not responding to input

Andrew J. Schorr aschorr at telemetry-investments.com
Tue May 26 12:04:28 PDT 2015


Hi,

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:01:47PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It should.  There is probably some kind of hardware bug.  This is sadly
> common in UARTs, which ought to be really simple stuff...

I think we found the bug a week ago -- the config file parsing code
has a bug where it uses atoi instead of strtoul.  So it treats hex
values as zero.  My untested patch is here:

 http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-May/023507.html

Regards,
Andy


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