[U-Boot-Users] Stop U-boot from booting [ Halt it ]

[Pawel Pastuszak]

Thanks Denk,

This what i was looking for.....

Thanks,
Pawel

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> In message <8ff29df80802220653u7af49b35sf2d437baa4afa461 at mail.gmail.com>
> you wrote:
> >
> > How would i go about halting u-boot, one on my requirement is to stop
> the
> > board from booting if one of the POST test fails or anthor test fails.
>
> That's what we call a "critical POST failure".
>
> > The only thing that i could think of was setting ....
> >
> > setenv("bootcmd", "");
> >
> > But i think there is a better way. Any suggestions,
>
> What you want is this commit:
>
> 8a484d2b87067bfbf83583606600486ff4b4f0a2
>
>    The patch introduces the CRITICAL feature of POST tests. If the test
>    marked as POST_CRITICAL fails then the alternative, post_critical,
>    boot-command is used. If this command is not defined then U-Boot
>    enters into interactive mode.
>
>    Signed-off-by: Dmitry Rakhchev <rda at emcraft.com>
>    Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur at emcraft.com>
>
> You can find this in the lwmon5 branch of the U-Boot  git  repository
> where  it  is  queued up ready for merge into mainline as soon as the
> next merge window opens again.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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