[U-Boot] bootcount support on arm/kirkwood

[Prafulla Wadaskar]

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> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de 
> [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of Heiko Schocher
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 6:42 PM
> To: U-Boot user list
> Subject: [U-Boot] bootcount support on arm/kirkwood
> 
> Hello,
> 
> does somebody know, if it is possible to use the uboot 
> bootcount feature on an ARM926EJS (CPU Core Version 
> FEROCEON_88FR131 SOC Family: KIRKWOOD,
> KW88F6281) based board ?
> 
> I searched for some space on this CPU for implementing this 
> feature, but could not find any (at least 4 bytes = 1 
> register), which not lost his value on a reset of this CPU.
There is reset counter register on Kirkwood which counts the time for which H/w Reset is pressed-n-hold. This is generally used to trigger "Factory Reset" Kind of function using reset key.

I don't think you are searching for the same. Do you?

BTW: What's your end use case?

Reagrds..
Prafulla . .

> 
> thanks in advance
> Heikos
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