[U-Boot] granularity of bootm subcommands
Jerry Van Baren
gvb.uboot at gmail.com
Sat Aug 9 01:58:15 CEST 2008
Scott Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 08:37:47AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> Finally I'd like to change the subcommands to be prefixed with '_' to
>> make parsing easier:
>> bootm _start <args>
>> bootm _prep
>> bootm _load_os
>> ...
>
> Ick. How about using a different name than "bootm"?
>
> -Scott
Yeah, reusing "bootm" may be too clever.
What I had in mind for overloading bootm is to do strncmp() operations
for each of the subcommands (and where none of the subcommands could be
interpreted as hex numbers - i.e. have a letter g-z or "_" in it) and,
if none of the valid subcommands passed, do a legacy implementation
where the three parameters are parsed as hex (or "-" for the ramdisk).
Again, while I like the concept of using "bootm" since we are familiar
with it (and I don't have a better name), I would not be adverse to
using a different command name since the New Improved "bootm" will be
substantially different than bootm-classic.
Best regards,
gvb
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