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

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Aug 5 16:48:01 CEST 2008


On Aug 5, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> 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;
> 	}
>
> :-)

if it were only so easy :)

>> 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.

ok.

- k




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