In message <8bd0f97a0805282121j10a99bb7ve92efc6a8dc8bbb1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > how about the fact that when the core resets, the memory controller is > often reset as well ? that external memory is going to degrade. or > do we just bite our thumb and weather the few random bit errors ? It depends. In all cases we tested so far we have never seen a corrupton because the hardware and U-Boot were quick enough to get at least refresh running again in time. If you are really concerned, there are other options. For example on systems that have OCM or SRAM you can put the log buffer there. We did this in a project on 440EPx. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx To be awake is to be alive. - Henry David Thoreau, in "Walden" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
