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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Blackfin: implement go/boote wrappers
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:26:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080421072648.0BAAA247AF@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:25:42 EDT." <200804210125.45077.vapier@gentoo.org>

In message <200804210125.45077.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > Intended and documented behaviour is that "go" is used to start
> > standalone applications, which are supposed to return.
> 
> then how exactly are people supposed to execute their flat binaries ?  none of 

I am not an expert for the Blackfin implementation. But "go"  is  for
standalone applications. The "boot*" commands are intended to boot OS
images.

> the other boot methods allow for straight jumps that i'm aware of.  otherwise 
> i'm going to have to add even more bloat to add a slight variation on the go 
> command: one where the documentation doesnt require it to return.

That makes no sense to me. If you want to boot some OS, use a "boot*"
commands, not "go" or the like.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-19  5:45 [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Blackfin: implement go/boote wrappers Mike Frysinger
2008-04-20 23:38 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-21  0:31   ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-21  5:00     ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-21  5:25       ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-21  7:26         ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2008-04-21  7:49           ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-21  9:03             ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-21  9:41               ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-21 10:07                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-21 10:35                   ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-21 10:59                     ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-21 12:14                       ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-21 12:13                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-21 18:44                       ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-21 19:45                         ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-21 20:58                           ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-21 22:19                             ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-21 23:08                               ` Mike Frysinger

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