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

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Oct 20 21:28:48 CEST 2011


Dear "Moffett, Kyle D",

In message <5BF60315-656D-4173-8722-9E2EC99AAEDE at boeing.com> you wrote:
>
> For the boards that *do* set CONFIG_PANIC_HANG, none of the fatal
> errors in common/cmd_bootm.c should cause U-Boot to reset, they are
> all valid panic() conditions, such as GZIP overwrite errors and fatal
> image format issues.  In those cases this is also a bugfix.

These boards may rely on such behaviour, for example by then booting
an altenative image.  This _is_ a change of behavior, even if only for
a relatively small number of boards.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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