On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:59:49PM +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote: > On pátek 24. srpna 2018 21:50:00 CEST, Pavel Machek wrote: > >I'd say this is "ti,our-hw-designers-forgot-to-connect-reset-line", > >and I see nothing OS specific about that... > > Actually, our board first resets the chip, and then U-Boot uses some LEDs as > status indicators to show progress of various stages of booting. That sounds > like a useful design to me, but it ends up with Linux claiming that all LEDs > are dim even though some channels are HW-blinking. > > That's why I think that the chip should be always reset by the kernel. Does your board have the reset pin tied to a GPIO? It would be less disruptive to other users, which might actually rely on the bootloader configuration, if support was added for the GPIO. Andrew
