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From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] SPL: Add CONFIG_SPL_BOOTCOUNT_SUPPORT
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 09:14:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131002131427.GF15917@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52491C44.80906@denx.de>

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 08:37:56AM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On 27.09.2013 21:26, Tom Rini wrote:
> > Add a new symbol, CONFIG_SPL_BOOTCOUNT_SUPPORT, to make use of the
> > existing BOOTCOUNT_SUPPORT within SPL.  It is strongly discouraged to
> > use bootcount in both SPL and full U-Boot, as they use the same counter.
> 
> I just noticed that I missed sending the SPL bootcount implementation I
> did a few weeks ago to the list. I'll send it shortly. The main
> differences I see right now are:
> 
> - My implementation requires CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT and
>   CONFIG_SPL_BOOTCOUNT_SUPPORT to be configured

OK, I see where you went with this, and I like this idea better.  I
shall incorporate that in v2.

> - The check is not added to the board-specific code, but the
>   medium code (here spl_nor.c). This might be consolidated even
>   more by moving it to a non-boot-medium specific location (spl.c)?

This I think takes things the wrong way.  When it's part of
spl_start_uboot we cover all boot method cases (MMC and NAND, in my
case).  Perhaps we should switch to a useful, but still weak default
function?

-- 
Tom
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-02 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-27 19:26 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] Add bootcount support to SPL Tom Rini
2013-09-27 19:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] SPL: Add CONFIG_SPL_BOOTCOUNT_SUPPORT Tom Rini
2013-09-30  6:37   ` Stefan Roese
2013-10-02 13:14     ` Tom Rini [this message]
2013-09-27 19:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] am335x: Switch to CONFIG_SPL_BOOTCOUNT_SUPPORT Tom Rini
2013-09-28  1:20 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] Add bootcount support to SPL Otavio Salvador
2013-10-02 15:07   ` Tom Rini

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