From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlev Zundel Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:02:40 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Enabling the data size parameter for memory commands like "md"? In-Reply-To: (Pasi Huhtiniemi's message of "Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:33:21 +0300 (EEST)") References: Message-ID: <87y8vo10yn.fsf@deepthought.outer.space.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Pasi, > I'm playing around with a day-old cvs snapshot of U-Boot, using it with > "make at91rm9200dk_config". My problem is the same with 0.4.0. > >>>From the source (and from the usage help) I understand that at least the > memory commands like "md" should accept (optional) data size parameter > (.b/.w/.l) as the first parameter. > > How do you enable this? In my environment they don't work: 1) argv[0] is > the command itself (like "md"), not the data size parameter from where the > source tries to read it and 2) if I give the data size parameter, the > upper framework counts the amount of parameters to be illegal and > therefore certain commands give me an error message (the short usage). > > I suppose there is a #define missing? What is it? I could not quickly find > it grepping the source, googling the net / mailing list archives. I think you misunderstood the docs. The size specification is not a parameter but rather a part of the command name - that's why the source looks at argv[0]. Check out the examples in our documentation[1]. Cheers Detlev [1] https://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/UBootCmdGroupMemory#Section_5.9.2.5. -- You see, the best way to solve a problem is to rigorously define it in terms of other people's problems, and then run away quickly. -- Roland McGrath