On 01/12/14 18:05, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 11/26/2014 10:57 AM, James Thomas wrote:
>> On 32-bit systems fdtput writes 0xfffffffe as 0x7fffffff, which takes
>> some time to complete.
>>
>> Setting this to 0 accomplishes the same goal
> 
> A value of 0 doesn't mean the same thing. 0 means that bootdelay is enabled,
> just with an immediate timeout, whereas -2 means that bootdelay is disabled
> completely, so that boot can't be interrupted. The difference is that when
> bootdelay is 0, the user can still press a key before the boot delay check, 
> and
> break into the boot process. This would make the flasher less reliable.

Ah, right, that makes sense, thanks for the feedback
> 
> Can you explain why the correct value doesn't get into the DTB? It seems 
> better
> to fix that bug in fdtput instead. Or perhaps there's a bug in the 
> command-line
> arguments to fdtput that should be fixed?

Command-line argument should have been the first thing I checked, I think we
need to use -t x (hex) here instead of int. Now works correctly on 32-bit and
64-bit (i'll resubmit)

Thanks
James



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