[U-Boot] question about repetition of some u-boot commands

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Aug 9 21:21:33 CEST 2011


On 08/09/2011 02:03 PM, Belisko Marek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just curious. Why some commands entered to u-boot are repeated after
> processing by pressing Enter key? Like tftp, print ....
> 
> Thanks for clarification,

It's useful for some commands like "md" that auto-advance.  It's not
useful (and often annoying) for most others.  There's a field in the
command descriptor that indicates whether autorepeat should be enabled
for that command, but a lot of commands set it that shouldn't.

-Scott



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