[U-Boot] bootcount support on arm/kirkwood

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Jul 9 09:47:09 CEST 2009


Dear Prafulla Wadaskar,

In message <73173D32E9439E4ABB5151606C3E19E202DD54DFED at SC-VEXCH1.marvell.com> you wrote:
> 
> > No chance? Is there really no register/mem array which keep 
> > its value across a processor reset?
...
> Do you want only across reboots(i.e. resets)? How about re-power cycle?

It needs to keep it's value only through resets; it is  assumed  that
power  cycling  gets  detected independently from that, in which case
this boot counter would be reset to 0.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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