[U-Boot-Users] u-boot README file

T Ziomek ctz001 at email.mot.com
Thu Nov 1 20:33:55 CET 2007


On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Bruce Adler wrote:
>
> I'm trying to make sense out of this sentence in the README file:
>
>  Please note that the environment is read-only as long as the monitor
>  has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
>  created;
>
> the phrase "as long as" don't make sense to me in that sentence
> I think it should say "until" instead of "as long as"
> IOW, it should read:
>
>  ... is read-only until the monitor has been relocated to RAM ...
>
> does anyone disagree?

My guess is that sentence is intended to convey that changes to a RAM copy
of the environment are not persistent (will not be preserved across resets
/ power cycles).

Tom




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