On Friday 17 July 2009 02:12:45 Dave Mitchell wrote:
Keep in mind the processor UM documentation section that covers these boot methods is labeled "Bootstrap Operations". It refers the registers that the EEPROM values populate as "bootstrap registers", etc.
Yes, I know. But then, bootstrapping [1] is really a name with a _very_ fuzzy meaning. It can be anything. The fact thay it was chosen in the UM documentation does't make it better - in U-Boot context I think about other activities, and in Linux context yet about other things.
In general, the term does have a "fuzzy" meaning. But within the AMCC 4xx processors, it does not. And we are talking about a command that would only be available to AMCC 4xx processors.
A command that's been in use on several U-Boot 4xx ports for some time.
I'm aware of this fact. And changing this name is of course non-optimal. But from my point of view, the advantages of enhancing this command and making it easier usable/portable for all 4xx boards overweight this disadvantage.
Best regards, Stefan
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