[U-Boot-Users] simplify bootm command -- deprecated or removing functionality?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Aug 5 16:45:20 CEST 2008


In message <940B425D-31DA-4B2D-87BA-63928AB31388 at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> Can we drop any functionality from the current bootm?

Any? You mean:

	int bootm (...)
	{
		return 0;
	}

:-)

> For example does powerpc still need to support bd_t based booting?

Yes, of course we need this. There is lots of systems out there that
use pre-DT kernels and still want recent versions of U-Boot for
various reasons.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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