From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:13:24 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 12/12] board: add warning to readme files explaining how to flash the target In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20131022171324.0e0e607b@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Samuel Martin, On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:31:36 +0200, Samuel Martin wrote: > Only add a warning message in readme.txt files giving intructions to > flash the target memory device. > > All others boards coming with a readme.txt files explain how to > prepare a removable media or how to use the emulator. > > Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin The current wording is quite scary, and doesn't even explain *why* those particular board readme.txt files have such a warning. What about just: """ WARNING: the below information will overwrite the platform bootloader. Therefore, make sure you have a known-working recovery mechanism for your platform, as we can't guarantee that the new bootloader will work. """ Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com