From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Agner Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 17:02:20 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 03/13] apalis/colibri_t20/t30: integrate recovery mode detection In-Reply-To: <559D8ED0.3040901@wwwdotorg.org> References: <84d93469cfb940421e8e84b822b441fbad8ca29c.1436170106.git.marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com> <559D8ED0.3040901@wwwdotorg.org> Message-ID: <559E8CFC.90801@toradex.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 08.07.2015 22:57, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 07/07/2015 12:04 AM, Marcel Ziswiler wrote: >> >> >> On 6 July 2015 18:38:21 CEST, Simon Glass wrote: >> >>> Out of interest, is this just a message for the user? Why is it useful? >> >> Well, we or customers might do other interesting things on entering >> rcm like stopping autoboot or automatically start ums. > > But that's not what this patch does; it simply prints a message. It > doesn't seem terribly useful. > IMO, it really is useful: The boot ROM takes other initialization steps when using RCM recovery mode vs. full NAND/eMMC boot. We have had issues in the past where the Linux kernel hangs or shows issues just because something (e.g. USB, NAND or eMMC) was/or was not initialized by the boot ROM first. Of course those are bugs, and need to be resolved in the end. But it can be helpful to reproduce issues when one sees whether the recovery mode has been used or not... -- Stefan