From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:6f8:1178:4:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Z5vLJ-0004c2-Nb for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:24:22 +0000 Received: from dude.hi.pengutronix.de ([2001:67c:670:100:1d::7]) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5vKp-0001X9-Ok for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:23:51 +0200 Received: from jbe by dude.hi.pengutronix.de with local (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5vKp-0003Ni-Gg for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:23:51 +0200 From: Juergen Borleis Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:23:48 +0200 Message-Id: <1434716629-10707-3-git-send-email-jbe@pengutronix.de> In-Reply-To: <1434716629-10707-1-git-send-email-jbe@pengutronix.de> References: <1434716629-10707-1-git-send-email-jbe@pengutronix.de> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: be more precise about the topic To: barebox@lists.infradead.org 'system restart' is the correct topic here. Signed-off-by: Juergen Borleis --- Documentation/user/system-reset.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user/system-reset.rst b/Documentation/user/system-reset.rst index 8ff3963..e76e3a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/user/system-reset.rst +++ b/Documentation/user/system-reset.rst @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ .. _system_reset: -System Reset ------------- +System Restart +-------------- -When running the reset command barebox restarts the SoC somehow. Reset can +When running the reset command barebox restarts the SoC somehow. Restart can be done in software, but a more reliable way is to use a hard reset line, which -really resets the SoC. +really resets the whole machine. The most common way to force such a hard reset is by using a watchdog. Its trigger time will be setup as short as possible and after that the software just waits for its reset. Very simple and most of the time it does what's expected. -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox