From: Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@ge.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] bootm: Add subcommands
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:44:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FE3114.3040908@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224520091-26756-1-git-send-email-galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Kumar Gala wrote:
> Add the ability to break the steps of the bootm command into several
> subcommands: start, loados, ramdisk, fdt, bdt, cmdline, prep, go.
>
> This allows us to do things like manipulate device trees before
> they are passed to a booting kernel or setup memory for a secondary
> core in multicore situations.
>
> Not all OS types support all subcommands (currently only start, loados,
> ramdisk, fdt, and go are supported).
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Hi Kumar,
I've been hacking at cmd_bootm.c and image.c. The direction I'm hacking
in is:
* Move boot_* stuff from image.c into cmd_bootm.c
- Calling out to another file to a function unused in that file? Ugly.
* Move the FIT stuff out of image.c into a new file fit_image.c
- The resulting files are more cohesive and less BIG.
* Move the im* commands out of cmd_bootm.c into a new file cmd_image.c
- At one time, I was of the opinion that "bootm (loados|ramdisk|fdt)"
should be "ldimage (os|ramdisk|fdt)". I'm less sure of myself,
but have not totally discarded the opinion.
- Looking in cmd_bootm.c for im* commands is rather unintuitive.
My intent is to do this hacking based on your bootm subcommand changes,
so we can do a two-step cleanup.
Do you have a git repo I can clone rather than trying to keep up with
the master repo + your patches? My tracking of your work is falling
apart. I see you have an out-of-date repo on git.kernel.org, can you
update that perhaps?
Thanks,
gvb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 16:28 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] bootm: Add subcommands Kumar Gala
2008-10-20 16:28 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] bootm: support subcommands in linux ppc bootm Kumar Gala
2008-10-21 19:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] bootm: Add subcommands Wolfgang Denk
2008-10-21 22:22 ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-22 11:32 ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-10-21 19:44 ` Jerry Van Baren [this message]
2008-10-21 19:50 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-10-21 19:51 ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-10-21 20:05 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-10-21 20:07 ` Jerry Van Baren
2008-10-21 23:04 ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-22 11:35 ` Jerry Van Baren
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