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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:47:40 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] bootm as a script -- requires HUSH?
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In message <45CA6EEB-4A74-46FC-A544-B71C0E922753@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> 
> On Aug 7, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
> > In any case, I expoect the total numbers of lines of code in U-Boot to
> > go down by quite an amount - for example, if we manage to get rid of
> > all the code duplication we have now across architectures.
> 
> I doubt this is really going to happen because the majority of code is  
> specific to the mechanism used to boot a kernel that is arch specific.
> 
> (ie, the ePAPR style interface on PPC, the TAGs support on ARM, etc.)
> 
> I dont see how we reduce code in that area (since it seems  
> fundamentally arch specific).

There is a lot of common code - verify and uncompress the Linux kernel
image; check for existence of, then verify and load the ramdisk, etc.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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