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Reduce CPU usage of chip-console (#25663)
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This is busy polling the serial port, and as a result uses 100% CPU.
Use a non-zero timeout to avoid this.

Using asyncio would be better, but pyserial support for this is still
experimental.
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mspang authored Mar 14, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ def console(device: str, baudrate: int,
serial_impl = SerialWithLogging

if socket_addr is None:
serial_device = serial_impl(device, baudrate, timeout=0)
serial_device = serial_impl(device, baudrate, timeout=0.1)
def read(): return serial_device.read(8192)
write = serial_device.write
else:
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