Dear Joakim Tjernlund,

In message 
<of18ca6215.dc3a539b-onc12577d1.00439a8b-c12577d1.0043b...@transmode.se> you 
wrote:
>
> > What exactly is a "soft reset" in U-Boot?  And how would you perform
> > one?
> 
> Not in u-boot, but Linux or a privileged linux app. could.

Could do what?  Modify the memory map such that the Flash is mapped
as it was (eventually) when U-Boot is running, and then jump right in
the middle of nowhere?

That would be invoking undefined behaviour in it's purest form.

Anything can happen then.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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