[U-Boot-Users] RFC: New U-boot image format

Timur Tabi
2007-12-18T19:47:29Z

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> What good would this do to you? If you run a "dhcp" command with
> autostart enabled, the image will immediately be autobooted - there
> will be no place for you to issue a command to do anything with your
> environment variable.

Wouldn't it be better to run the 'bootcmd' variable? That's how U-Boot has
always autobooted. I'm sure there are boards out there that need to run some
commands before booting, and they use bootcmd to do that.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale