[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] mpc85xx: Add a board-specific restart hook

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Oct 19 22:35:42 CEST 2011


Dear "Moffett, Kyle D",

In message <7C2673D7-CC5C-490C-9809-06C9A207154F at boeing.com> you wrote:
>
> Since "reset" is basically just like any other U-Boot shell command,

No, it ain't.

> (except with some side-effects) it seems reasonable to allow a board
> handler to return an error instead of resetting.

No.  Reset will never return.  It is supposed to hard reset the board,
which means crossing the point of no return.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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