Hi all, I met a reboot puzzle those days. Nearly every boards of 20 samples had a symptom that after issuing a reboot command in Linux land more than 10 times or so, the target would encounter some unexpections like hang after kernel uncompresing or reset the target when initializing USB[VT6212L] 1.1 host controller. But I never see any problem if cycle power. Then I have to switch for a replacement method. In 8248 restart function, use a GPIO to pull LOW POWER_RESET# to get a similar result and it did solve the problem. Well, if I use the GPIO to pull LOW HARD_RESET#, problems still existed. I use 2.4.31 kernel.
So I wonder what the problem could be according to your experience. Can we get the same result with software as POWER_RESET does? I also want to know more on the difference among software reboot and Power On reset and Hard reset. I mean the possibble effect on target running or initialization. What I wanna to implement is a software power off and on operation. Power-on -> waitting for power button pushing in u-boot -> boot the target -> power off the target in Linux land by pushing the power button -> back to u-boot in a software power off state for next power button pressing -> ... Thanks in advance for any comments/suggestion, Sam ___________________________________________________________ ????G??????????????????? http://cn.mail.yahoo.com