[PATCH v3 31/32] bootstd: Introduce programmatic boot

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,


On Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 12:21 Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 02:05:19PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
>
> > At present bootstd requires CONFIG_CMDLINE to operate. Add a new
> > 'programmatic' boot which can be used when no command line is available.
> > For now it does almost nothing, since most bootmeths require the
> > command line.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> Overall, this seems fine. The only ask I have really is, can we think
> about how to handle both this case and the case handled by
> cmd/bootmenu.c in a common fashion? To me, one is "show a menu of boot
> options, based on env variables" and one is "show a menu of boot
> options, based on C code" and the "show a menu of boot options" should
> have a lot in common.
>

I had not thought about providing a menu with prog boot.

Could we drop this patch from the series for now and apply the others? I
would like to finish and send the follow-on

Regards,
Simon

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> Tom
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