[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 8/8] ARM: Present a menu of bootable options on boot

Suriyan Ramasami suriyan.r at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 21:51:03 CEST 2013


Sounds good to me.

I shall attempt a generic version and call it cmd_bootscan.c in the common
directory.

- Suriyan


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Mike Dunn <mikedunn at newsguy.com> wrote:

> On 04/10/2013 06:43 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Suriyan Ramasami <suriyan.r at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Initialize usb and ide.
> >> Scan through the usb for storage and boot capable partitions.
> >> Scan through the ide interface for boot capable partitions.
> >> Present such bootable options to the user to choose to boot from
> >> If the user does not choose any choose the default option
> >> the default option is the option chosen by the user the last time
> >> If no such default option exists, boot from the first possible
> >> bootable option.
> >
> > This all sounds very generic but...
> >
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Suriyan Ramasami <suriyan.r at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >> Changes in v2:
> >>         - Coding style changes
> >>
> >>  board/Seagate/goflexhome/goflexhomemenu.c |  415
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > but this is not a generic location. This feature would interest me and
> > probably Stephen as well.
>
>
> I was thinking along these lines as well for the treo 680.  Suriyan,
> perhaps we
> can collaborate, with the guidance of the maintainers here.
>
> Mike
>


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