Merge pull request #480 from Mausy5043/no-uart

Disable UART by default

Author: diederikdehaas

README.md

@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ The format of the _installer-config.txt_ file and the current defaults:
                               # undesirable.
     enable_watchdog=0         # loads up the hardware watchdog module and configures systemd to use it. Set to
                               # "1" to enable this functionality.
+    enable_uart=0             # Set to "1" to enable the UART. Disabled by default.
     gpu_mem=                  # specify the amount of RAM in MB that should be reserved for the GPU
 
 The timeserver parameter is only used during installation for _rdate_ which is used as fallback when setting the time with `ntpdate` fails.  

scripts/etc/init.d/rcS

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ final_action=reboot
 hardware_versions=detect
 hwrng_support=1
 enable_watchdog=0
+enable_uart=0
 gpu_mem=
 
 # these shouldn't really be changed unless auto-detection fails
@@ -1316,11 +1317,12 @@ do
                 echo "#device_tree="
             fi
             if [ "${hv}" = "3" ] ; then
-                # we should probably add a config parameter for uart purpose
-                # as the statements below disables bluetooth which various/most
-                # people will prefer over the serial console
-                echo "# enable the serial console for the installed system"
-                echo "enable_uart=1"
+                # Only enable UART if the user explicitly sets that option.
+                # Enabled UART may break the bootprocess / bluetooth support.
+                if [ "${enable_uart}" = "1" ]; then
+                  echo "# enable the serial console for the installed system"
+                  echo "enable_uart=1"
+                fi
             fi
         } >> /rootfs/boot/config.txt