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

Jerry Van Baren gerald.vanbaren at ge.com
Thu Nov 1 20:59:46 CET 2007


T Ziomek wrote:
> 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

While your point is also true, I agree with Bruce WRT the line in question.

Best regards,
gvb




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