[U-Boot-Users] bootm as a script -- requires HUSH?

[Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@ge.com>]

Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> On Aug 7, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> 
>> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> if I understand Wolfgang and Jerry they'd like to recode the control  
>>> flow of the bootm command in the scripting env u-boot provides.
>>> This seems to imply that we'd require HUSH as the simple parser  
>>> doesn't seem to provide any control statements like (if..then..else).
>>> is this correct?
>>> - k
>>
>> Yes.
> 
> Than I think the ideas you guys have aren't beneficial to anyone.  What 
> benefit to we gain by doing this?  Its going to be slower and larger.
> 
> - k

...for some subset of "anyone."

A lot of people resisted moving to the linux 2.6 kernel because it is 
slower and larger than the 2.4 kernel.  A lot of embedded devices (and 
probably some servers and desktops) are still running 2.4 kernels.  I 
would not conclude that 2.6 isn't beneficial to anyone.

Maybe the destination turns into a failure, but half the fun is planning 
the trip.

gvb