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From: Mark Jackson <mpfj@mimc.co.uk>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Can I have a backup boot option ?
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:42:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <492AA134.7010008@mimc.co.uk> (raw)

Our current system works fine (booting from flash or nfs), but I'd also like to add a "recovery" feature.

If an end-user inserts an MMC card containing some "magic marker" files, the target will detect these and boot from the MMC card instead of using the standard boot option.

For portability, I guess I could use the Hush option and construct some big if..else..fi statement to check for the MMC card files and boot accordingly. Is this a simple-ish task ?

An easier, but less portable, way would be to hard-code the checks in the startup code before the standard boot process.

I've done a quick check of the README and the source code, but nothing else seems to stand out as a possible solution.

Anyone got any ideas ?

Thanks
Mark

             reply	other threads:[~2008-11-24 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-24 12:42 Mark Jackson [this message]
2008-11-24 12:56 ` [U-Boot] Can I have a backup boot option ? Wolfgang Denk
2008-11-24 14:31   ` Mark Jackson

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