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[U-Boot-Users] u-boot README file

[Bruce Adler]

hi all,

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?

bruce

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[T Ziomek]

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

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[Jerry Van Baren]

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

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[T Ziomek]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>
> 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.

I wasn't saying it was well-phrased, whatever the meaning.  Either way it
could be clarified.  On the other hand, the correct clarification depends on
the original intent...

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[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711011602370.30583@gauley.ddna.labs.mot.com> you wrote:
>
> >>> 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?

I don't care if anyone disagrees. I agree that it should read "until".

> I wasn't saying it was well-phrased, whatever the meaning.  Either way it
> could be clarified.  On the other hand, the correct clarification depends on
> the original intent...

The original intent is the "until" reading. Please subgmit a patch.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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