[syslinux] extlinux 6.03 serial console not responding to input

[H. Peter Anvin]

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.

	-hpa