Disable u-boot serial console

[Kimberly]

I'm testing with bananapi m1 plus(ARMBIAN 5.31 stable Debian GNU/Linux 8 jessie 4.11.6-sunxi)

 

I want to remove booting output both in the lcd screen and the serial console(because I am using the ttys0 for other purpose), so changed /boot/boot.cmd.

I found these two line,

if test "${console}" = "display" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "console=tty1"; fi
if test "${console}" = "serial" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "${consoleargs} console=ttyS0, 115200"; fi

and changed it with those two lines below.

if test "${console}" = "display" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "console=tty3"; fi
if test "${console}" = "serial" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "console=tty3"; fi

I was able to remove booting output after kernel, but I wasn't for the u-boot booting output.

 

I also tried setenv stdout from serial,vga to vga. By this, I could remove some part of the booting output in the serial console, but I still have this in the serial console.

U-Boot SPL 2017.05-armbian (Jun 15 2017 - 02:10:40)
DRAM: 1024 MiB
CPU: 912000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2
Trying to boot from MMC1


U-Boot 2017.05-armbian (Jun 15 2017 - 02:10:40 +0200) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
Model: LeMaker Banana Pi
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
HDMI connected: Setting up a 800x480 dvi console (overscan 0x0)
Error: no valid bmp image at 66000000
In:    serial
Out:   vga
Err:   vga
U

I want to also get rid of this. I tried searching in the web about this, and found that I should set these and compile the kernel and make patch

CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE
CONFIG_SYS_DEVICE_NULLDEV
CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE_UPDATE_ON_RELOC

http://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/how-to-disable-enable-debug-messages-in-linux

 

However, I cannot find which file I should insert those three lines to.

Can anybody help me how to disable u-boot serial console output?

 

Thanks,

[Igor]

Just use / enable this patch:

 

https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/remove-boot-messages-from-hdmi.patch.disabled

[Kimberly]

Igor,

 

Thanks for the reply. The problem is I want to remove both the screen message and the serial console message from ttyS0. With this patch it seems that there still be a serial console message. I think the message below should be removed from u-boot.

 

U-Boot SPL 2017.05-armbian (Jun 15 2017 - 02:10:40)
DRAM: 1024 MiB
CPU: 912000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2
Trying to boot from MMC1


U-Boot 2017.05-armbian (Jun 15 2017 - 02:10:40 +0200) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
Model: LeMaker Banana Pi
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
HDMI connected: Setting up a 800x480 dvi console (overscan 0x0)
Error: no valid bmp image at 66000000
In:    serial
Out:   vga
Err:   vga
U

 

[Igor]

Try this :
 

Spoiler

diff --git a/include/configs/sunxi-common.h b/include/configs/sunxi-common.h
--- a/include/configs/sunxi-common.h
+++ b/include/configs/sunxi-common.h
@@ -487,8 +487,8 @@ extern int soft_i2c_gpio_scl;

 #ifdef CONFIG_VIDEO
 #define CONSOLE_STDOUT_SETTINGS \
-	"stdout=serial,vga\0" \
-	"stderr=serial,vga\0"
+	"stdout=\0" \
+	"stderr=\0"
 #else
 #define CONSOLE_STDOUT_SETTINGS \
 	"stdout=serial\0" \

 

 

[zzz]

I'm in the same situation, I was able to hide all the boot messages after u-boot via settings in armbianEnv.txt.

 

Then I copied the SD to eMMC (faced this issue so I had to changed the boot script and regenerate) and updated the bootloader via nand-sata-install and now I have a verbose u-boot...

 

How should I apply the patch mentioned above ? Compile u-boot ? Any guidance on how to proceed ?

 

Thanks in advance for your help guys, much appreciated

 

OrangepiPC+ / 5.73 Jessie Legacy (yes, I know it's old but I need 'advanced' graphic control)

[Tejas SJ]

How to disable the Serial Console log in LCD during the U-Boot stage? 

I am using Lime2 Rev.K board "A20-OLinuXino-LIME2-e4Gs16M" with a 7" LCD. Image used is "Armbian_5.89 with Ubuntu bionic".

There is a serial console log displayed on the LCD during the U-Boot stage which stays on for a brief period of less than 5 seconds. 
 

Quote

 

Printenv:: (only selected outputs..)

 

console=ttyS0,115200
lcd_olinuxino=7859
monitor=lcd
serial#=00007f98
stdout=serial,vga

 

 

[kentAVR]

Solution

 

[mo123]

Anyone know how to completely disable console output for ttyS2 on RK3328?

Are there also getty services using it by default?

When I go to /dev there are only files for ttyS0, ttyS1 & ttyS3.

I need to have console completely disabled for ttyS2 since I need to use bluetooth over ttyS2.

Bluetooth chip is a RTL8723DS that is sdio + uart.

 

When Armbian for RK3328 is build, it shows this message.

How to stop it from enabling ttyS2?

o.k. ] Enabling serial console [ ttyS2 ]