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From: Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@ge.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] u-boot README file
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:59:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <472A3032.70700@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.61.0711011321001.1932@oceanview.labs.mot.com>

T Ziomek wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Bruce Adler wrote:
>> I'm trying to make sense out of this sentence in the README file:
>>
>>  Please note that the environment is read-only as long as the monitor
>>  has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
>>  created;
>>
>> the phrase "as long as" don't make sense to me in that sentence
>> I think it should say "until" instead of "as long as"
>> IOW, it should read:
>>
>>  ... is read-only until the monitor has been relocated to RAM ...
>>
>> does anyone disagree?
> 
> My guess is that sentence is intended to convey that changes to a RAM copy
> of the environment are not persistent (will not be preserved across resets
> / power cycles).
> 
> Tom

While your point is also true, I agree with Bruce WRT the line in question.

Best regards,
gvb

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-01 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-01  2:13 [U-Boot-Users] u-boot README file Bruce Adler
2007-11-01 19:33 ` T Ziomek
2007-11-01 19:59   ` Jerry Van Baren [this message]
2007-11-01 21:03     ` T Ziomek
2007-11-01 21:27       ` Wolfgang Denk

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