[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] Add bootcount support to SPL

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Sat Sep 28 03:20:52 CEST 2013


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> The following patches depend on the series I posted earlier that adds
> environment support to SPL as well as the series that converts the
> davinci bootcount driver to support am335x as well.  The most obvious
> issue to me as that as Scott pointed out with the last series, this
> would be clearer Kconfig where we wouldn't need to introduce
> CONFIG_SPL_BOOTCOUNT_SUPPORT and just re-use CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_SUPPORT.
> Other than that, I think things look good.  It may be possible to
> re-jigger bootcount drivers to allow counting for both SPL and full
> U-Boot to happen, if that's strongly desired but the way I see this
> being used is to fall-back to a failsafe full U-Boot to do what's needed
> there.

I think we need to count both; the SPL part solves the U-Boot failsafe
but the full U-Boot is needed to failsafe the OS.

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