On Wednesday 19 October 2011 17:05:12 Moffett, Kyle D wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2011, at 16:35, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Moffett, Kyle D wrote:
> >> Since "reset" is basically just like any other U-Boot shell command,
> >
> > No, it ain't.
> >
> >> (except with some side-effects) it seems reasonable to allow a board
> >> handler to return an error instead of resetting.
> >
> > No. Reset will never return. It is supposed to hard reset the board,
> > which means crossing the point of no return.
>
> Ok.
>
> By that definition, my board cannot safely use U-Boot's "reset" command.
>
> Would you accept a patch which makes it possible for a board to not
> implement a "reset" command at all?
>
> There are a few places in common/cmd_bootm.c which are converted to use
> panic("...") instead of printf("...")+do_reset().i guess i'm dumb, but i don't understand why it can't be made to work on your board. but worse comes to worse, you could have your board reset call hang() or panic() ... -mike
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