[Buildroot] [PATCH 12/12] board: add warning to readme files explaining how to flash the target

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Oct 22 15:13:24 UTC 2013


Dear Samuel Martin,

On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:31:36 +0200, Samuel Martin wrote:
> Only add a warning message in readme.txt files giving intructions to
> flash the target memory device.
> 
> All others boards coming with a readme.txt files explain how to
> prepare a removable media or how to use the emulator.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>

The current wording is quite scary, and doesn't even explain *why*
those particular board readme.txt files have such a warning. What about
just:

"""
WARNING: the below information will overwrite the platform bootloader.
Therefore, make sure you have a known-working recovery mechanism for
your platform, as we can't guarantee that the new bootloader will work.
"""

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com


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