[U-Boot] [PATCH] embestmx6boards: Increase boot delay to 3s

[Eric Bénard]

Hi Nikolay,

Le Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:05:15 +0200,
Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster at mail.bg> a écrit :
> On 12/13/2014 04:16 PM, Eric Bénard wrote:
> > Le Fri, 12 Dec 2014 20:16:19 +0200,
> > picmaster at mail.bg a écrit :
> >
> >> From: Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster at mail.bg>
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster at mail.bg>
> >> ---
> >>   include/configs/embestmx6boards.h |    2 +-
> >>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/include/configs/embestmx6boards.h b/include/configs/embestmx6boards.h
> >> index 185edbe..28099a8 100644
> >> --- a/include/configs/embestmx6boards.h
> >> +++ b/include/configs/embestmx6boards.h
> >> @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
> >>   #define CONFIG_CMD_SETEXPR
> >>   #undef CONFIG_CMD_IMLS
> >>
> >> -#define CONFIG_BOOTDELAY               1
> >> +#define CONFIG_BOOTDELAY               3
> >>
> >>   #define CONFIG_LOADADDR                        0x12000000
> >>   #define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE           0x17800000
> >
> > This will increase the boot time by 2 seconds : why is that needed ?
> 
> Thanks for commenting. My intent is to give by default a reasonable
> time for the end-user to react and break the boot-sequence if needed
> (and avoid the nasty racing against the clock for this precious
> key-press).
> 
> My motivation for this is that I see RIoTboard/MarsBoard mostly as
> boards that people can use for experimentation/prototyping, and not as
> a finished end-product, thus my thinking that the slightly increased
> boot-time won't be a critical issue for such applications. Still
> everyone can change the delay at will if they want to optimize the boot.
> 
> Other hobby boards also have similarly handy boot-timings, like
> Wandboard (5s), Novena (5s), Udoo (3s).
> 
OK seems reasonable.

Eric