-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/2013 04:36 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Tom, > > In message <20130314173648.GX23324@bill-the-cat> you wrote: >> >>>> Is there any reason for not chosing the more standard 5 >>>> second delay? >>> >>> Ok, so let's go with 3 seconds then ;-) >> >> There's a pretty even distribution of 1 3 and 5 second delays >> (with a few 10s, 2s and 6s). If they want 1, let them have 1, >> it's not hard to break into, you have U-Boot starting + 1sec. > > The question is who "they" are. My vote is for 5 :-) > > A quick AWK oneliner in include/configs finds this statistics:
OK, I forgot to sub -1 from 1, oops. So it's not very even, but... > > Value Count -1: 49 0: 12 1: 59 2: 30 3: 150 5: 175 > 6: 14 10: 38 20: 1 We have a lot of variation and no "standard" aside from "board maintainer picks". While I'd strongly question anyone who did > 10 I think this is a board maintainer decision. Now, if you've convinced Fabio that 5 or 3 just makes more sense than 1 for all the right reasons, great. But "I think 1 is too short" isn't a good one. 1 is plenty of time to get a keypress in and stop the boot given that you have roughly from u-boot starting to press any key, not just when the countdown is going. Unless you have a bug in your timer code :) - -- Tom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRQjrHAAoJENk4IS6UOR1WsZIQAJv0BwogMTtfpaijt10frY2Z 9TiVbSz+GLAsHG1KpxmWG8K1D6mFVuQw6/96+8ARdZCeLdcqKXZjPLcydmmO6Ths HLR22EcGpUDVmfgi15LUGxD/uct/MZYwl0w9NWfEQBeuluEPlGN6Rahv9gtQeZmI U/3fBLX8S/LhX1WunVDRyDn2YBRedR2AvlLQbkd7JeondPqL72Cspnwr2QgpumJc mqua9zXHiXzzS0HdLDoQxdwWM9wCF7Xl2+go744gvv3Rr/hot7eWwPy5DjAPDMlL bjdhgtsg1kcjlJqdvKz3TpV5WC5bkbdHXR7G9xaNCL1ibkN5SWg9YhwelbLYGl+r Enbov0r0jG5XHfv2QfxutPnIOb1EptH9//926Wu4V7Xc/n5aMeuRLer0Cqzni7Ps EbjQ8PZSwLbBla9hlW6IjlzjdXxgG74k6n/+St9np5Sfe2jLkfziMoQApkxPairr ixhCH0w+rfrMeDxZV0vubQWqG9cRlfXwWdKIbdGZm0vpZWC5wFSqbMcqTuz/Edyx E5H4M6TGmXV+bWG/ShWeQ+ybxBgKmikyMcGYuVr9MtUgaHkwmAf+WEITUWXDi6iX tUCR+tXwnRvMxQoPu45U1xLA2VedofvTukZaLWrarP5o7yhCU7BE7Kx4gsjQMH2V E6PGT31eUj3m+Ila3mWd =PZeB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
