[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 2/3] Add ePAPR boot command

[Kumar Gala]

On Aug 6, 2008, at 3:21 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> In message <1218004332-20311-2-git-send-email-galak at kernel.crashing.org 
> > you wrote:
>> Add a boot command that supports the ePAPR client interface on  
>> powerpc.
>
> What is the intended use of such a command?
>
> How does it intergrate with with image formats supported  by  U-Boot?
> To  me  it seems that it's mostly intended to be called by other code
> and not interactively, since I cannot see any  interfacing  with  the
> existing image types?

I've been using as follows:

setenv autostart no
bootm
<fdt fixups>
bootepapr 0 $bootm_fdtaddr

Additionally these seems like the low level functionality needed if we  
want to move to the "scriptable" bootm were we decouple image loading  
from the actual boot mechanism.

- k