On Wednesday 19 October 2011 20:23:15 Moffett, Kyle D wrote: > On Oct 19, 2011, at 20:15, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 October 2011 18:52:10 Moffett, Kyle D wrote: > >> So U-Boot MUST NOT reset without negotiating, even if the current CPU > >> has crashed, as that will cause the other (possibly perfectly > >> operational) CPU to also crash. > > > > so why can't you have your do_reset() board hook negotiate with the other > > CPU to reset the system ? > > That's what I originally implemented. The problem is the negotiation can > take an unbounded amount of time to execute, so if it's run from the > command line then it needs to be interruptible (EG: with Ctrl-C), which > means it needs to be able to return an error.
what's wrong with an unbounded amount of time ? if the user wants it to reset, then it should do so regardless of how long. -mike
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