[U-Boot-Users] simplify bootm command

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Aug 5 15:01:08 CEST 2008


In message <48983694.8000803 at free.fr> you wrote:
> 
> > That's why I think we should have an explicit "builtin" command, i. e.
> > command with the name "builtin" that will always run the corresponding
> > builtin command, no if there is a "command alias" or not - similar to
> > the bash command
> 
> ... and make sure that one can *never* define an environment variable 
> called 'builtin', and even remove any such definition if found in the 
> environment when reading it from persistent memory at boot.

No. That's where the "always" in my sentence above comes  into  play.
Even  if  you define such a variable I would just issue a warning and
then ignore it when it comes to command execution.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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