[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] at91sam9: add watchdog support

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Mar 9 12:19:43 CET 2009


Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,

In message <20090309083209.GC24237 at game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote:
>
> > > +	The watchdog can only be activate once so you need to activate in the
> > > +	bootloader and in the bootstrap if you use it
> > 
> > This sentence makes no sense to me.
> > 
> > If I can activate it only once, then why do you claim I have to
> > activate it twice ("in the bootloader [1] and in the bootstrap [2]").
> you must activate it support in the twice

Then you should write that in clear words in the documentation.

> > And what exaxctly is "the bootstrap"?
> U-Boot can be the First or the Second level bootloader on AT91SAM9 or CAP9
> In this second case the Bootstrap is the first bootloader (when booting on
> dataflash as example)

Please add an explanation for such terminology. You might want to
refer to the terms already used for NAND booting etc.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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