[PATCH 2/2] docs: mvebu: describe -n more accurately in the sphinx document

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Fri Jun 30 02:51:45 PDT 2017


Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
---
 Documentation/boards/mvebu.rst | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/boards/mvebu.rst b/Documentation/boards/mvebu.rst
index 8e5612283e7a..b28fd443b668 100644
--- a/Documentation/boards/mvebu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/boards/mvebu.rst
@@ -37,9 +37,15 @@ Booting from UART
 
 The mvebu SoCs support booting from UART. For this there is a tool available in
 barebox called ``kwboot``. Quite some mvebu boards are reset once more when
-they already started to read the first block of the image to boot. If you want
-to boot such a board, use the parameter ``-n 15`` for ``kwboot``. (The number
-might have to be adapted per board.)
+they already started to read the first block of the image to boot which
+obviously results in a failure to boot this image. If you want to boot such a
+board, use the parameter ``-n 15`` for ``kwboot`` to delay uploading the image
+and try to hit the right (i.e. second) window harder.
+(The number might have to be adapted per board. The semantic is that the magic
+string is sent until the 15th NAK is seen and only then the image is sent.) A
+typical commandline is:
+
+  kwboot -b barebox.img -n 15 -B 115200 -t /dev/ttyUSB
 
 mvebu boards
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