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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear "Moffett, Kyle D",

In message <8B4AC84D-1F22-4326-B75A-FB3CC39A5CF7 at boeing.com> you wrote:
>
> By that definition, my board cannot safely use U-Boot's "reset" command.

You can call halt() or panic() as last stage of your reset
implementation.


Heh. Mike writes the same ;-)

> Would you accept a patch which makes it possible for a board to not
> implement a "reset" command at all?
> 
> There are a few places in common/cmd_bootm.c which are converted to use
> panic("...") instead of printf("...")+do_reset().

This is not acceptable, as changes behaviour: panic() will halt the
system, not reset it.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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