Hi On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Iain Paton <ipat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13/12/14 17:03, Eric Bénard wrote: >> Hi Nikolay, >> >> Le Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:05:15 +0200, >> Nikolay Dimitrov <picmas...@mail.bg> a écrit : >>> On 12/13/2014 04:16 PM, Eric Bénard wrote: > >>>> This will increase the boot time by 2 seconds : why is that needed ? >>> >>> Thanks for commenting. My intent is to give by default a reasonable >>> time for the end-user to react and break the boot-sequence if needed >>> (and avoid the nasty racing against the clock for this precious >>> key-press). >>> >>> My motivation for this is that I see RIoTboard/MarsBoard mostly as >>> boards that people can use for experimentation/prototyping, and not as >>> a finished end-product, thus my thinking that the slightly increased >>> boot-time won't be a critical issue for such applications. Still >>> everyone can change the delay at will if they want to optimize the boot. >>> >>> Other hobby boards also have similarly handy boot-timings, like >>> Wandboard (5s), Novena (5s), Udoo (3s). >>> >> OK seems reasonable. > > I disagree. I think it's an unnecessary, unneeded, unreasonable tripling > of the boot time. > > Rather than leaving people to patch out this unwanted behaviour, I'd suggest > promoting CONFIG_BOOTDELAY into a Kconfig option, leaving the default as-is. >
I'm agree and this is what I say in my previous email Michael > This allows the people who want it to configure it easily. > > In any case the rationale given, that the Riotboard is a dev board used for > experimenting, doesn't imply a change like this one. It implies a conversion > to use config_distro_bootcmd.h like the patches I've just posted. > This also leads to a slightly less unreasonable increase in bootdelay to 2s > from config_distro_defaults.h > > Using config_distro_bootcmd also means that we can largely ignore the u-boot > shell altogether and just use extlinux.conf instead > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > U-Boot@lists.denx.de > http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot -- | Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi Amarula Solutions BV | | COO - Founder Cruquiuskade 47 | | +31(0)851119172 Amsterdam 1018 AM NL | | [`as] http://www.amarulasolutions.com | _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
