[U-Boot] [PATCH] nios2: configure STATUS_LED_BOOT

[Marek Vasut]

On Saturday, September 05, 2015 at 03:04:02 PM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> Define STATUS_LED_BOOT. So the boot LED will be initialized
> in board_init_r(), and show the boot progress.
> 
> Though the boot LED is set to blinking in board_init_r(),
> only the powerpc and nios2 really support blinking. All other
> archs just turn the LED on and can not blink.
> 
> After the commit "nios2: Switch to generic timer", with the
> removal of call to status_led_tick(), nios2 can not blink LED.
> But it doesn't really matter, because U-Boot usually runs a very
> short time. It should be enough to turn boot LED on and off
> during boot process.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas at wytron.com.tw>
> ---
>  include/configs/nios2-generic.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/configs/nios2-generic.h
> b/include/configs/nios2-generic.h index 10f9a34..66ad2f0 100644
> --- a/include/configs/nios2-generic.h
> +++ b/include/configs/nios2-generic.h
> @@ -58,8 +58,9 @@
>  #define LED_PIO_RSTVAL			0xff
> 
>  #define STATUS_LED_BIT			0	/* Bit-0 on GPIO */
> -#define STATUS_LED_STATE		1	/* Blinking */
> +#define STATUS_LED_STATE		STATUS_LED_ON
>  #define STATUS_LED_PERIOD	(CONFIG_SYS_HZ / 2)	/* 500 msec */
> +#define STATUS_LED_BOOT			STATUS_LED_BIT
> 
>  /*
>   * BOOTP options

Idea: Maybe you can add a __weak hook into the generic timer code to
blink the LED ?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut