On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Andrew Dyer, > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> Add 'reboot' as a synonym for 'reset' at the u-boot command line. > > I tend to reject this change, because I think it is actually wrong. > 'reboot' and 'reset' are two different things - the former includes > an ordered shut-down of running services while the latter just > performs what the name says: a hardware reset.
I'm fine with your decision, it was just a convenience for me, so I'll keep it in my local tree, but I would ask in the context of u-boot where there are essentially no 'services' or state that needs to be saved, what's the real difference? For a hypothetical do_reboot(), I suppose one could extract some of the code of do_bootm() (shut off interrupts, usb, maybe caches) into a common function, run an optional platform hook and then do_reset(), but it doesn't seem like it would make much difference for the vast majority of cases, once the hardware reset comes through. -- Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
