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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Force a 2s delay on startup to allow bypassing /dev/env0.
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 19:16:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120506171638.GT4141@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31umynwu9.fsf@intrepid.localdomain>

On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 11:26:22PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Just requesting comments. I'm using this on my hw.
> 
> The idea is that /env/bin/init may be uninterruptible and the user
> may be unable to recover control over the barebox. Perhaps there is
> a better way?

Being able to interrupt before environment processing is a good thing to
have, the delay though is not acceptable because it would increase the
boot time on some systems by 400%. It should work without the delay
aswell.

Sascha


> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
> 
> diff --git a/common/startup.c b/common/startup.c
> index abd1b77..fde99d5 100644
> --- a/common/startup.c
> +++ b/common/startup.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
>   * @brief Main entry into the C part of barebox
>   */
>  #include <common.h>
> +#include <clock.h>
>  #include <init.h>
>  #include <command.h>
>  #include <malloc.h>
> @@ -117,6 +118,8 @@ void start_barebox (void)
>  	int result;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_COMMAND_SUPPORT
>  	struct stat s;
> +	uint64_t start;
> +	int stop = 0;
>  #endif
>  
>  	for (initcall = __barebox_initcalls_start;
> @@ -130,6 +133,17 @@ void start_barebox (void)
>  
>  	display_meminfo();
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_COMMAND_SUPPORT
> +	start = get_time_ns();
> +	printf("\nPress Control-C to stop.");
> +	while (!is_timeout(start, 2 * SECOND))
> +		if (ctrlc()) {
> +			stop = 1;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +	putchar('\n');
> +#endif
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ENV_HANDLING
>  	if (envfs_load(default_environment_path, "/env")) {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT
> @@ -141,14 +155,16 @@ void start_barebox (void)
>  	}
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_COMMAND_SUPPORT
> -	printf("running /env/bin/init...\n");
> -
> -	if (!stat("/env/bin/init", &s)) {
> +	if (stop)
> +		printf("skipping /env/bin/init\n");
> +	else if (!stat("/env/bin/init", &s)) {
> +		printf("running /env/bin/init...\n");
>  		run_command("source /env/bin/init", 0);
> -	} else {
> -		printf("not found\n");
> -	}
> +	} else
> +		printf("/env/bin/init not found\n");
> +
>  #endif
> +
>  	/* main_loop() can return to retry autoboot, if so just run it again. */
>  	for (;;)
>  		run_shell();
> 
> -- 
> Krzysztof Halasa
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-06 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-05 21:26 Krzysztof Halasa
2012-05-06 17:16 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2012-05-06 17:50   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2012-05-06 18:08     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-05-07  0:14     ` Marc Reilly

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