Dear Robert, In message <alpine.LFD.2.20.1607231318540.16761@localhost.localdomain> you wrote: > > so this tells me that there's not a whole lot of that feature being > used, so i won't spend much time on it.
Right, it is only a last resort when you cannot find any better place to storeit (in a hardware register that survives resets). > also, just to confirm, the "upgrade_available" variable is used > *exclusively* for the case of bootcount in the environment and nowhere > else, correct? so, again, if i'm not using the environment, i don't > care about it. Right. It is only needed to reduce the number of writes to the environment. > now, i can see where one wants to reset "bootcount" to zero once you > boot successfully, but why would you also set "upgrade_available" to > zero? don't you want to keep using that feature when you boot in the > future? --> Heiko ? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Include the success of others in your dreams for your own success. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot