| The config option CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE can be used to quiet messages | |
| on the console. If the option has been enabled, the output can be | |
| silenced by setting the environment variable "silent". The variable | |
| is latched into the global data at an early stage in the boot process | |
| so deleting it with "setenv" will not take effect until the system is | |
| restarted. | |
| The following actions are taken if "silent" is set at boot time: | |
| - Until the console devices have been initialized, output has to be | |
| suppressed by testing for the flag "GD_FLG_SILENT" in "gd->flags". | |
| - When the console devices have been initialized, "stdout" and | |
| "stderr" are set to "nulldev", so subsequent messages are | |
| suppressed automatically. Make sure to enable "nulldev" by | |
| #defining CONFIG_SYS_DEVICE_NULLDEV in your board config file. | |
| - When booting a linux kernel, the "bootargs" are fixed up so that | |
| the argument "console=" will be in the command line, no matter how | |
| it was set in "bootargs" before. |