[U-Boot] u-boot command for standalone application

swami91 to.swami at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 16:39:16 CEST 2014


>Even if you hard-code addresses in the U-Boot image you would be
>violating the GPL. A non-GPL standalone application must be really
>what the name suggests: standalone.  It gets only a very narrow,
>stricltly limited set of services - just enough to ger some early
>initialization and debugging done.  All the rest, including drivers
>and services, mut be re-implemented in your own proprietary image. 

Is there any way of passing some data from outside of u-boot to u-boot
without violating the GPL? Should the data be released as part of GPL? So if
u-boot accesses some memory the content of that memory outside of its
control should be released as GPL? Looks odd..



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