[U-Boot-Users] Boot Count Limit

Lokesh Kumar kumar.lokesh at wrx-us.com
Wed Mar 17 19:23:21 CET 2004


Wolfgang,
The attachment seems to be for 8260 processor. What about MPC855T? Is it the
same? Or what do I have to do to access this parameter?

Lokesh

-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:wd at denx.de]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 6:54 AM
To: Jeff Angielski
Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Boot Count Limit 


Dear Jeff,

in message <1075223225.4345.4.camel at localhost.localdomain> you wrote:
> 
> Has anybody written the small application that resets the bootcount as
> per the following description:

Ah! Somebody else is actually using this feature :-)

> "It is the responsibility of some application code (typically a Linux
> application) to reset the variable bootcount, thus allowing for more
> boot cycles."

Correct.

> If so, can you send it my way or tell me where to get it?  I am trying
> to not recreate the wheel yet again.... :)

Please see attachment.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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