[U-Boot] load file to memory in standalone program

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Henrik,

In message <1368920138.23379.14.camel at localhost> you wrote:
>
> I think it would be a great addition to add generic filesystem
> operations to the standalone API. The fs_read() and fs_write() functions
> should be possible to export via the standalone API as-is, but should
> probably be wrapped a little bit to select which filesystem/partition to
> operate on, similar to do_load() but without the u-boot env magics or
> variable arguments.

Technically you may be right.  The reason why we intentionally
maintain a very lean interface to standalone programs is that we allow
such applications to be distributed even under non-GPL licenses.

If you need more fancy features, just add your code to U-Boot and
distribute it under GPL.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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