Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Leif Neland wrote:
> 
> > Just configure it correctly. Don't tell it to talk to a serial device
> > that will be sending it gibberish.
> 
> A hack would be to have the loader emit ATE0 to protect itself from
> echoing modems.

AFAIK, it would not protect against all modems. I think Winmodems, for
instance, won't recognize that command.

> Another, but perhaps annoying would be flushing the input buffer before
> each read.

It's not enough. At the baud rates a modem work at, even when echoing,
the flush is likely to happen before the modem finishes echoing
everything.

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