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From: Jerry Van Baren <gvb.uboot@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 6/17] Reorganize and fix problems (returns) in the bootm command.
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:46:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <468D82E6.3020000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070705193817.580D7353A64@atlas.denx.de>

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <468D0E3D.3000308@freescale.com> you wrote:
>> Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>>  > We've smashed our underpinnings by uncompressing linux over our
>>  > interrupt vectors before the checksum catches the problem.  There is no
>>  > way back other than a reset.
>>
>> Can you include this explanation as a comment in the code at the exact point this occurs?
> 
> Ummm... what exactly is not clear enough with this comment in
> "common/cmd_bootm.c":
> 
>         /*      
>          * We have reached the point of no return: we are going to
>          * overwrite all exception vector code, so we cannot easily
>          * recover from any failures any more... 
>          */      
> 
> ??? Do you need additional explanations? What should be added?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk

Maybe if we enhanced the comment so it catches the eye of your average 
geek.  Perhaps one of these:
   <http://www.chris.com/ASCII/art/html/nakedladies.html>
Of course, we would have to do #ifdef MALE around it...

;-)

gvb (who missed the comment himself, the first time around)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-05 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-05  1:15 [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 6/17] Reorganize and fix problems (returns) in the bootm command Jerry Van Baren
2007-07-05  2:43 ` Grant Likely
2007-07-05 10:54   ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-07-05 14:13     ` Grant Likely
2007-07-05 14:30       ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-07-05 19:36         ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-07-05 15:29     ` Timur Tabi
2007-07-05 15:33       ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-07-05 19:38       ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-07-05 23:46         ` Jerry Van Baren [this message]
2007-07-06  2:25         ` Timur Tabi

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