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

[Marek Vasut]

> 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.

Please go through it, we don't need two separate implementations of the same 
thing. If you can't use it as it, just augment it and submit a patch for it.