[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Blackfin: implement go/boote wrappers

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 21 April 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <200804210635.08416.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
> > > 	go [ -cache={off,d-off,i-off,on,d-on,i-on} ] addr [ args ... ]
> >
> > cache is just an example.  other arches may want to do other sort of
> > "system breakdown/cleanup" before relinquishing control.  option flags to
> > commands
>
> As the situation is, other arches seem to be just fine  as  it.  It's
> only BF which needs a pork sausage.

this is incorrect.  any architecture which wants to overwrite u-boot sanely 
needs to worry about causing exceptions or interrupts.  i just want to make 
the obvious easy since it has caused more than enough support requests.

> > really doesnt fit the style of u-boot (i expect that sort of painful
> > option parsing in redboot, not really u-boot).
>
> I don;t like it either, but just ading random new commands is even
> worse.
>
> > so we can do:
> > 	go [-noret] addr [args...]
>
> Ummm... "no return" programs is just an example.  Other  pograms  may
> want  to  do  other  sort of "system breakdown/cleanup" before relin-
> quishing control.
>
> > or we can add "jump" to cmd_boot.c and merge the differences by just
> > using > a function pointer to "do_go_exec" or "do_jump_exec".
>
> Adn then we add "call" and "exec" and "do" and so oon just for  other
> needed options? I say no.

then implement whatever.  in the mean time i'll keep forking the Blackfin 
code.

> > i never said Blackfin was the only thing that mattered.  in fact, my goal
> > is to make it so that people using this facility get a more standard
> > initial environment before they start taking over the system.  i guess i
> > wont point out the U-Boot policy about not using interrupts ...
>
> Are you aware that U-Boot does use interrupts here and there? That we
> actually  provide  functions  to  register  interrupt   handlers   to
> standalone programs, etc. ?

yes i'm aware, but we arent talking about standalone applications here, so 
those really dont matter.
-mike
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