[syslinux] extlinux 6.03 serial console not responding to input

[Andrew J. Schorr]

Hi,

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 05:13:25PM -0400, Dany St-Amant wrote:
> Replying to the original e-mail as the thread was containing little extra useful information (beside the fact that the issue was similar as to when the flow control values were not provided at all).
> 
> Based a quick look at the code I had on hand 2.06 and 6.01. I would suggest that you use a decimal number instead of an hexadecimal one for the flow control.
> 
> The assembly parseint() of 2.06 supported decimal,octal,hexadecimal and some val+K, val+M. The new C parsing code uses plain atoi() which appears to be quite limited.
> 
> So both your 0x003 and 0x00b are handled as 0, causing you to go back to before you introduced these values.

Yes!  That's it -- the fix was as simple as replacing "0x003" with "3".
I guess the code should use strtol or sscanf instead of atoi.  Or the docs need
to be fixed.

Thank you!

Regards,
Andy