keyboard issue

Bas Wijnen wijnen at debian.org
Fri Nov 20 15:10:52 EST 2009


On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 08:03:25PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> I think it would be nice if one could enable the serial by pressing a
> key on the keyboard during boot.
> This is useful if you want to change some uboot env settings or get
> debug output.
> So for example if you press the Qi button while uboot is starting
> you'll end up in the uboot menu with serial enabled.

Directing the boot to a boot loader may be useful (actually, usbboot is
enough for me, though).  However, it makes sense to allow using the
complete keyboard or the serial receive.  IMO this should be changable
at run time, for example via a file in /proc.

Thanks,
Bas
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