[U-Boot-Users] custom loadable command shell

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <44299C65.7050304 at mc.com> you wrote:
> 
> I've been contemplating how to develop a U-Boot loadable applet which 
> provides a set of custom commands which augment the standard U-Boot 
> command set. The general idea is to keep a working version of U-Boot in 
> Flash without modifying - and then simply installing the new command 
> applet as it changes.

No problem to do this. There are already several boards which do this.

> The applet would include a command parser. If none of my custom commands 
> are found, a call to the U-Boot parser (via ABI) would be made to handle 
> U-Boot commands.

No need to implement a new parser. The existing one  deals  perfectly
fine with such a requirement. Just read the documentation.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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