[U-Boot] Giving control to standalone app.

Jeroen Hofstee jeroen at myspectrum.nl
Sun Jul 6 13:16:57 CEST 2014


On 06-07-14 13:10, mazen.e wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> At the moment U-Boot branches to the OS entry point, U-Boot  is dead and no
> longer exists, does this property hold also when u-boot loads a standalone
> application.
>
> In fact, I want to 'give control' to a standalone application,  what does
> exactly  the word 'give control' mean? e.g. 'giving control' is established
> by implementing an infinite loop in the standalone such that the  body of
> the loop executes continuously specific tasks or responding to particular
> interrupts? in such case what happens to u-boot? what if after a particular
> event in the standalone  app I want to return to u-boot?
>
> Please excuse me for this beginner question.
>
>
Yes you loop as long as you want to keep doing something, when you
return you should end up in u-boot again.

Regards,
Jeroen


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