[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/1] OMAP3: add boot status GPIO LED for IGEP boards

Igor Grinberg grinberg at compulab.co.il
Mon Dec 24 08:31:59 CET 2012


On 12/24/12 02:39, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Javier Martinez Canillas,
> 
> In message <1356265899-18669-1-git-send-email-javier.martinez at collabora.co.uk> you wrote:
>> This patch adds an GPIO LED boot status for IGEP boards.
>>
>> The GPIO LED used is the red LED0 while the Linux kernel
>> uses the green LED0 as the boot status.
>>
>> By using different GPIO LEDs, the user can know in which
>> step of the boot process the board currently is.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez at collabora.co.uk>
> 
> Do we really need yet another implementation of boot status
> signalling?  I think no.
> 
> Please implement this a board specific version of the
> show_boot_progress() feature (see CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS).

That sounds reasonable.
Although, I don't know if there are appropriate check points implemented,
but certainly, that is the way to go.

-- 
Regards,
Igor.


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