[U-Boot] [PATCH 11/14] New config variable CONFIG_PREMONITOR

Pali Rohár pali.rohar at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 22:55:34 CET 2012


On Wednesday 25 January 2012 22:28:17 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 January 2012 21:51:38 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 25 January 2012 19:12:51 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > > >  * if defined run env "premonitor" before Main Loop for Monitor
> > > > > >  Processing
> > > > > 
> > > > > What is this good for?
> > > > 
> > > > before running monitor loop I'd like write some info to console
> > > > (specific board info, board commands, board macros). but if these info
> > > > will be written in preboot it can be deleted by menu section.
> > > 
> > > The "menu" here, you refer to the thing you implemented? So fix that
> > > instead of introducing broken code and a pile of workarounds.
> > 
> > With "menu" I mean env menucmd. U-Boot run command stored in env menucmd
> > after preboot and before monitor loop. For example in menucmd can be my
> > bootmenu, but there are no problems - no broken code! My bootmenu clear
> > screan and show menu, so anything printed before menu entries will be
> > deleted. This is not bug - Also in Grub or LILO is debug/output log
> > cleaned when showing menu entries.
> 
> Ok anyway, but you implemented custom menu system anyway ... so let's clear
> this first, is common/menu.c useless for your application?
> 

I do not know. I created my bootmenu before menu.c was integrated into u-boot. 
I did not looked at menu.c yet - I do not know what is in menu.c implemented.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar at gmail.com
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