[syslinux] extlinux 6.03 serial console not responding to input

[Gene Cumm]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux
<syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 05/26/2015 12:04 PM, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Oh, that would probably do it.

A fix has been pushed.

-- 
-Gene