[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] Adjust command macros to allow smaller U-Boot size

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 09:51:05AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:

> A large chunk of U-Boot's executable size is the code to process and
> execute commands. This is reasonable, since commands and scripts are
> an important part of U-Boot's feature set and provide much of its
> flexibility.
> 
> However, for some applications only a very limited set of commands is
> required. Where image size is important, it is desirable to be able to
> easily remove unwanted code.
> 
> This series introduces a new board_run_command() function which can
> be used to run a small subset of commands as required by the board
> (typically load and bootm), thus allowing the rest of the commands
> to be automatically and reliably dropped from the image using toolchain
> dead code elimination.

This is an interesting concept certainly.  Can you also provide a
non-trivial example here?

-- 
Tom
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