[U-Boot-Users] new port/code location
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Mon Jan 31 20:22:39 CET 2005
In message <20050131172035.GC14717 at scorpius.homelinux.org> you wrote:
>
> At the end of the initialisation (before the main_loop()), we shortcut
> to our own boot sequence barcbcd_boot();
>
> The boot code reads a number of bytes from a location from flash, and
> based on the values of these bytes, we boot the kernel locate 0xA or
> 0xB (after updating the value in flash). The practical effect is: try
Why do you need special code to do this? The same can be done using
existing commands and a few lines (actually one longer line) of
U-Boot commands (probably you want to activate the hush shell as
command parser for this).
> The question is if this is acceptable and if not, what would be a better
> location to obtain the same effect.
No, this is not acceptable. I don;t want to have board specific code
there, especially not when it's not necessary.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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