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From: Bill Pringlemeir <bpringlemeir@nbsps.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:17:47 -0500
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] imx: save reset cause in 'reset_cause'
	environment variable
In-Reply-To: <54D3F954.80701@boundarydevices.com> (Eric Nelson's message of
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On  5 Feb 2015, eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com wrote:

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> Of course (if we go that route).
>
> I thought of this when typing up the list of values for the
> commit comment.
>
> The human readable form is harder to handle on the receiving
> side though, which is why I favor hex.

I also prefer the hex.  I have had very weird values in this register.
For a normal user, we can guess and display a string.  Sometimes in the
case of double/triple resets, there can be very strange values.  You can
get these when DMA goes crazy (because of bad code or otherwise).

Fwiw,
Bill Pringlemeir.