[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: Adds saving of Kernel boot args to NAND flash

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Jul 6 19:27:06 CEST 2011


On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:42:52 +0200
Simon Schwarz <simonschwarzcor at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> thanks for your feedback!
> 
> I will address the style problems - didn't run checkpatch for the RFC
> - sorry my fault.
> 
> > Why are you writing to NAND as part of bootm?
> >
> > If you just want access to the results of the FDT/ATAG preparation that
> > bootm does, consider using the bootm subcommands to prepare them, then
> > normal U-Boot commands to write to NAND.
> 
> Hm thats a point. I see this as a feature as it saves new settings
> without the need of special commands

But that's not what bootm is for.  If you're doing something new, it should
be in a new command -- or in a script of existing commands.

-Scott



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