[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] bootm: Add subcommands

Jerry Van Baren gerald.vanbaren at ge.com
Wed Oct 22 13:32:21 CEST 2008


Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
>> Dear Kumar Gala,
>>
>> In message <1224520091-26756-1-git-send-email-galak at kernel.crashing.org 
>>> you wrote:
>>> Add the ability to break the steps of the bootm command into several
>>> subcommands: start, loados, ramdisk, fdt, bdt, cmdline, prep, go.
>>>
>>> This allows us to do things like manipulate device trees before
>>> they are passed to a booting kernel or setup memory for a secondary
>>> core in multicore situations.
>>>
>>> Not all OS types support all subcommands (currently only start,  
>>> loados,
>>> ramdisk, fdt, and go are supported).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
>> This looks mostly OK to me, but I haven't actually tested any of this
>> code yet - can you please comment to what extend you tested it?
> 
> I've tested this on FSL 85xx HW.  I'm able to boot using a sequence of  
> bootm subcommands + a few other commands as well as plain old bootm.

Ditto for the MPC8360.

Best regards,
gvb


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