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| author | Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de> | 2015-06-19 14:23:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> | 2015-06-22 07:22:28 +0200 |
| commit | aa17878804c64b4877b4351cf6dfe67ba3ba2a7b (patch) | |
| tree | 684063886bbafd4a15a6631b83f63ddc4810391f /Documentation | |
| parent | 2274edbb341391ee5f5b72cbd35999a35f0cb96e (diff) | |
| download | barebox-aa17878804c64b4877b4351cf6dfe67ba3ba2a7b.tar.gz barebox-aa17878804c64b4877b4351cf6dfe67ba3ba2a7b.tar.xz | |
Documentation: be more precise about the topic
'system restart' is the correct topic here.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user/system-reset.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user/system-reset.rst b/Documentation/user/system-reset.rst index 8ff39634ab..e76e3a23c1 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. |