[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/5] arm, am33xx: update for the am33xx based siemens boards

Heiko Schocher hs at denx.de
Mon Nov 4 14:15:45 CET 2013


Hello Bedia,

Am 04.11.2013 13:45, schrieb Vaibhav Bedia:
> Hi Heiko,
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Heiko Schocher<hs at denx.de>  wrote:
>> Patch 1 introduces bootcount support for the 3 siemens boards. As there
>> is no other possibility on this boards, the bootcounter is stored in the
>> environment. To prevent a "saveenv" on all reboots, a "upgrade_available"
>> U-Boot Environment variable is introduced.
>>
>
> I must be missing something here but as commented on v1 [1], could you
> clarify why the scratchpad register in RTC that should be persistent
> is not used?
>
> Regards,
> Vaibhav
>
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg124429.html

Hups, missed this EMail ... :-(

Hmm.. some boards from siemens do not use the RTC, so this approach
is not possible here ...

bye,
Heiko
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