[PATCH 1/4] Enable a way to provide the reason for "being here"

[Sascha Hauer]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 08:04:46AM +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> Many architectures support a way to detect why the bootloader is running.
> This patch adds a global variable to be able to use the cause in some kind of
> shell code to do special things on demand. For example to do an emergency boot,
> when the last boot fails and the watchdog reactivate the hanging system.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert <jbe at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  common/Makefile        |    2 +-
>  common/reset_source.c  |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/reset_source.h |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 common/reset_source.c
>  create mode 100644 include/reset_source.h
> 
> diff --git a/common/Makefile b/common/Makefile
> index d99dfa2..baf4539 100644
> --- a/common/Makefile
> +++ b/common/Makefile
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_UIMAGE) += uimage.o
>  obj-y += startup.o
>  obj-y += misc.o
>  obj-y += memsize.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_GLOBALVAR) += globalvar.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_GLOBALVAR) += globalvar.o reset_source.o

This should be a separate config option which depends on GLOBALVAR.


> +	RESET_WKE,	/* wake-up (some SoCs can handle this) */
> +	RESET_JTAG,	/* JTAG reset */
> +};
> +
> +extern void set_reset_source(enum reset_src_type);

'extern' is not needed in function declarations.

Sascha

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