From: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/7] spl: nand: support redundant u-boot image
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2016 02:17:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1465024636.22191.76.camel@buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160604081530.3e6bc395@bbrezillon>
On Sat, 2016-06-04 at 08:15 +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 20:15:16 -0500
> Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net> wrote:
>
> > How does the failure get communicated to later
> > parts of the system that would be responsible for such reflashing?
>
> Linux is taking care of that (a script tries to read the u-boot
> partition, and if fails it reflashes it with the content of the
> u-boot-backup partition, or with a reference u-boot.bin file).
> I guess u-boot could do it too.
>
> Anyway, that's a different story ;).
It seemed like it would be good to export the information if possible (e.g. an
environment variable) rather than rereading and thus making failures happen
twice as quickly. But that can wait until someone actually wants to use it
that way.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-04 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-01 11:23 [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/7] spl: nand: sunxi: implement auto-detection Boris Brezillon
2016-06-01 11:23 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/7] spl: nand: sunxi: remove support for so-called 'syndrome' mode Boris Brezillon
2016-06-01 11:23 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/7] spl: nand: rename the SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS Kconfig option Boris Brezillon
2016-06-04 1:08 ` Scott Wood
2016-06-04 6:06 ` Boris Brezillon
2016-06-04 7:14 ` Scott Wood
2016-06-04 11:06 ` Boris Brezillon
2016-06-06 17:16 ` Scott Wood
2016-06-06 18:40 ` Boris Brezillon
2016-06-01 11:23 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/7] spl: nand: support redundant u-boot image Boris Brezillon
2016-06-04 1:15 ` Scott Wood
2016-06-04 6:15 ` Boris Brezillon
2016-06-04 7:17 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2016-06-01 11:23 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/7] spl: nand: sunxi: stop guessing the redundant u-boot offset Boris Brezillon
2016-06-01 11:23 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/7] spl: nand: sunxi: rework status polling loop Boris Brezillon
2016-06-01 11:23 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 6/7] spl: nand: sunxi: split 'load page' and 'read page' logic Boris Brezillon
2016-06-01 11:23 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 7/7] spl: nand: sunxi: add support for NAND config auto-detection Boris Brezillon
2016-06-01 12:35 ` [U-Boot] [linux-sunxi] " Siarhei Siamashka
2016-06-01 13:22 ` Boris Brezillon
2016-06-01 13:22 ` Maxime Ripard
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