[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] fdt: add fdtcmd env var to allow post processing of device tree before boot

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <48976A3F.8060207 at ge.com> you wrote:
>
> I don't like it that bootm is calling out to all sorts of functions that 
> could better be scripted.  It complicates the bootm code (badly!), it 
> prevents users from doing clever things (because it hard codes the calls 
> and sequences of the calls to loosely related functions), and it 
> violates the unix principle of doing only one thing and doing it well 
> (bootm code is one big ugly awkward swissarmyknife[tm] tool).

I agree 100%.

> P.S. This battle was probably lost many years ago, but it still makes me 
> feel better to pound the desk and shout.  Oh-oh, people are looking...

Ther is two of us. I'm your ally when it comes to ripping out
unnecessary and complicted stuff out of bootm :-)

Just send patches...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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