Activity log for bug #1500164

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2015-09-27 09:27:04 Oliver Grawert bug added bug
2015-09-27 09:29:03 Oliver Grawert description There is a lot of online documentation to set up different hats (addon boards) on a RPi2 ... some of them use the serial port and have instructions how to disable the serial console by dropping "console=ttyAMA0" from the cmdline.txt file. Snappy currently sets the console= options from a uboot var that is set in uboot.env instead: (RaspberryPi2)ubuntu@localhost:~$ fw_printenv |grep console mmcargs=setenv bootargs "${args} console=tty0 console=ttyAMA0 root=${mmcroot}" to drop the serial console option you would have to: (RaspberryPi2)ubuntu@localhost:~$ sudo fw_setenv mmcargs 'setenv bootargs "${args} console=tty0 root=${mmcroot}"' (RaspberryPi2)ubuntu@localhost:~$ fw_printenv |grep console mmcargs=setenv bootargs "${args} console=tty0 root=${mmcroot} while this is as easy as editing a text file it will be hard to find for users trying to follow online docs that point to cmdline.txt instead. all console= options should be moved over to not add confusion over third party documentation. There is a lot of online documentation to set up different hats (addon boards) on a RPi2 ... some of them use the serial port and have instructions how to disable the serial console by dropping "console=ttyAMA0" from the cmdline.txt file. Snappy currently sets the console= options from a uboot var that is set in uboot.env instead: (RaspberryPi2)ubuntu@localhost:~$ fw_printenv |grep console mmcargs=setenv bootargs "${args} console=tty0 console=ttyAMA0 root=${mmcroot}" to drop the serial console option you would have to: (RaspberryPi2)ubuntu@localhost:~$ sudo fw_setenv mmcargs 'setenv bootargs "${args} console=tty0 root=${mmcroot}"' (RaspberryPi2)ubuntu@localhost:~$ fw_printenv |grep console mmcargs=setenv bootargs "${args} console=tty0 root=${mmcroot}" while this is as easy as editing a text file it will be hard to find for users trying to follow online docs that point to cmdline.txt instead. all console= options should be moved over to not add confusion over third party documentation.
2015-09-27 09:54:52 Oliver Grawert snappy: status New In Progress
2015-09-27 09:54:55 Oliver Grawert snappy: assignee Oliver Grawert (ogra)
2015-09-27 09:54:59 Oliver Grawert snappy: importance Undecided Medium
2015-11-25 10:03:28 Axel Hodler bug added subscriber Axel Hodler
2019-11-21 11:13:16 John Lenton snappy: assignee Oliver Grawert (ogra)
2019-11-21 11:32:11 John Lenton snappy: status In Progress Fix Released