[U-Boot] [PATCH V9 2/4] omap-common: Add NAND SPL linux booting

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Dec 7 19:47:43 CET 2011


Dear Simon Schwarz,

In message <4EDFA8FD.9000405 at gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > So if the parse function fails, we should have the fallback to u-boot,
> > exactly as we have now the fallback from u-boot.img to u-boot.bin.
> >
> Hm, I don't think that we want any fallback here. I would prefere an 
> error message and hang. The direct boot is designed to be used in the 
> field - so IMHO we don't want to start the bootloader automatically if a 
> normal startup fails.

I feel it is better to start U-Boot and enable the user to analyze the
situation instead of just hanging hard.

Just my 0.02#

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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