[U-Boot-Users] RFC: New U-boot image format

Timur Tabi timur at freescale.com
Tue Dec 18 20:47:29 CET 2007


Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> What good would this do to you? If you  run  a  "dhcp"  command  with
> autostart  enabled,  the image will immediately be autobooted - there
> will be no place for you to issue a command to do anything with  your
> environment variable.

Wouldn't it be better to run the 'bootcmd' variable?  That's how U-Boot has 
always autobooted.  I'm sure there are boards out there that need to run some 
commands before booting, and they use bootcmd to do that.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale




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