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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] RFC: New U-boot image format
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:47:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <476823D1.6040104@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071218194231.8AADD248AC@gemini.denx.de>

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.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-18 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-11 16:18 [U-Boot-Users] RFC: New U-boot image format Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-11 16:32 ` [U-Boot-Users] RFC: New U-boot image format - open issues Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-11 19:23 ` [U-Boot-Users] RFC: New U-boot image format Jerry Van Baren
2007-12-11 22:23   ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-12 12:38     ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-12-13 22:59       ` Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-13 22:41   ` Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-14  6:17     ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-14 21:44     ` T Ziomek
2007-12-19 14:26     ` Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-20  0:50       ` David Gibson
2007-12-20 16:41         ` Scott Wood
2007-12-20 22:25           ` Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-20 22:39             ` Scott Wood
2007-12-21  0:17               ` David Gibson
2007-12-18 15:17 ` Timur Tabi
2007-12-18 15:33   ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-12-18 15:36     ` Timur Tabi
2007-12-18 16:12   ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-18 16:17     ` Timur Tabi
2007-12-18 19:42       ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-18 19:47         ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2007-12-18 20:11           ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-18 20:18             ` Timur Tabi
2007-12-19 14:07   ` Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-20 19:42     ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-21 15:04       ` Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-21 15:17         ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-21 15:39           ` Marian Balakowicz

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