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

[Michael Trimarchi]

Hi

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Iain Paton <ipaton0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/12/14 17:03, Eric Bénard wrote:
>> 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:
>
>>>> 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.
>
> I disagree. I think it's an unnecessary, unneeded, unreasonable tripling
> of the boot time.
>
> Rather than leaving people to patch out this unwanted behaviour, I'd suggest
> promoting CONFIG_BOOTDELAY into a Kconfig option, leaving the default as-is.
>

I'm agree and this is what I say in my previous email

Michael

> This allows the people who want it to configure it easily.
>
> In any case the rationale given, that the Riotboard is a dev board used for
> experimenting, doesn't imply a change like this one. It implies a conversion
> to use config_distro_bootcmd.h like the patches I've just posted.
> This also leads to a slightly less unreasonable increase in bootdelay to 2s
> from config_distro_defaults.h
>
> Using config_distro_bootcmd also means that we can largely ignore the u-boot
> shell altogether and just use extlinux.conf instead
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