From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerry Van Baren Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:32:21 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] bootm: Add subcommands In-Reply-To: References: <1224520091-26756-1-git-send-email-galak@kernel.crashing.org> <20081021193007.0A614835694E@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <48FF0F45.3000406@ge.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Kumar Gala wrote: > On Oct 21, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > >> Dear Kumar Gala, >> >> In message <1224520091-26756-1-git-send-email-galak@kernel.crashing.org >>> you 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 >> This looks mostly OK to me, but I haven't actually tested any of this >> code yet - can you please comment to what extend you tested it? > > I've tested this on FSL 85xx HW. I'm able to boot using a sequence of > bootm subcommands + a few other commands as well as plain old bootm. Ditto for the MPC8360. Best regards, gvb