[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] arm/km: adapt bootcounter evaluation

Prafulla Wadaskar prafulla at marvell.com
Mon Oct 31 08:29:24 CET 2011



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger Brunck [mailto:holger.brunck at keymile.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 6:43 PM
> To: Prafulla Wadaskar
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Valentin Longchamp
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] arm/km: adapt bootcounter evaluation
> 
> Hi Prafulla,
> 
> On 09/14/2011 10:41 AM, Holger Brunck wrote:
> > The bootcounter (stored in the RAM) is not enough protected
> with the 4 Bytes
> > BOOTCOUNT_MAGIC against bit errors due to short power loss or
> holding a system
> > in RESET. It has been seen, that the bootcounter value has
> been changed due to
> > a bit flip on a system holding in RESET, but the
> BOOTCOUNT_MAGIC was still valid.
> >
> > A bit pattern with 4000 bytes (after BOOTCOUNT_MAGIC) has
> been implemented,
> > which should be enough to detect a bit error.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck at keymile.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Valentin Longchamp
> <valentin.longchamp at keymile.com>
> > cc: Prafulla Wadaskar <prafulla at marvell.com>
> > ---
> >  board/keymile/km_arm/km_arm.c |   32
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >  1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> 
> ...ping...
> 
> Or should this serie not go through your tree? If so then
> please let me know.

Generally not, this was done earlier by Wolfgang or Albert.
So I was assuming someone will pull.

Hi Wolfgang,
Please flag if I need to pull them.
 
Regards..
Prafulla . . .

> 
> Same question for these two patches:
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-
> September/102534.html
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-
> September/102535.html
> 
> Best regards
> Holger


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