From: <sch...@t-...> - 2001-10-05 12:59:01
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Hi all, well, ok then. From your comments I assume that I'll have to put this code under a #ifdef and make it a compile-time option. Please do understand my arguments, tough: - blob is a bootloader, yes. Most of the time only loads the kernel in a specified (quick) way, nothing else. - when one gets a defective board from a customer, blob _could_ be used as a diagnosis tool as well. I do not want to have first a special blob version flashed, because then i'd have to change the system in order to check it. I want to test the board as it is, right then when i get it. I could even instruct a technican via phone, specially useful when the board is somewhere in brazil and a machine does not work because of your board not running (which ist exactly what will happen, think of murphy's law). - a command line history is rather handy if you have to issue several commands in a row and misspelled one - that's why i keep adding test/diagnosis commands, because i _know_ i will need exactly these commands later for customer support, because i need them _now_ to get our new board running. Does this sound reasonable, or am i completly wrong? Stefan |