[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] arm/km: adapt bootcounter evaluation

Holger Brunck holger.brunck at keymile.com
Mon Oct 31 09:13:42 CET 2011


On 10/31/2011 08:29 AM, Prafulla Wadaskar wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Holger Brunck [mailto:holger.brunck at keymile.com]
>> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 6:43 PM
>> To: Prafulla Wadaskar
>> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Valentin Longchamp
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] arm/km: adapt bootcounter evaluation
>>
>> Hi Prafulla,
>>
>> On 09/14/2011 10:41 AM, Holger Brunck wrote:
>>> The bootcounter (stored in the RAM) is not enough protected
>> with the 4 Bytes
>>> BOOTCOUNT_MAGIC against bit errors due to short power loss or
>> holding a system
>>> in RESET. It has been seen, that the bootcounter value has
>> been changed due to
>>> a bit flip on a system holding in RESET, but the
>> BOOTCOUNT_MAGIC was still valid.
>>>
>>> A bit pattern with 4000 bytes (after BOOTCOUNT_MAGIC) has
>> been implemented,
>>> which should be enough to detect a bit error.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck at keymile.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Valentin Longchamp
>> <valentin.longchamp at keymile.com>
>>> cc: Prafulla Wadaskar <prafulla at marvell.com>
>>> ---
>>>  board/keymile/km_arm/km_arm.c |   32
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>>>  1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>> ...ping...
>>
>> Or should this serie not go through your tree? If so then
>> please let me know.
> 
> Generally not, this was done earlier by Wolfgang or Albert.
> So I was assuming someone will pull.
> 

Hm, in the past the patches for keymile ARM boards go through your tree Prafulla.

Anyway Wolfgang or Albert, who should pick up the patches for our Keymile
Kirkwood boards?

This two series have only board specific patches:
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-September/101328.html
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-September/102534.html

Best regards
Holger


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