On Aug 5, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > you wrote: >> Added the 'fdtcmd' environment variable as a way to provide 'fdt' >> commands >> that the user can supply to manipulate the device tree after >> ft_board_setup() and before the tree is handled to the kernel. >> >> The idea is that users may want to add or manipulate nodes w/ >> changing the >> u-boot binary. The current point in the code we do this we have >> yet to >> determine the final size and have yet to do the final fixup of the >> initrd >> information. >> >> If its desirable for the 'fdtcmd' support to have the proper initrd >> information a bit of code reorder will be in order. > > The current state of the bootm implementation is bad enough, but > adding such a callback opens just another few cans of worms. Sorry, > but I do not want to see that in mainline.
I dont see how this is different than the proposal of moving to a script based mechanism for doing a large portion of what bootm does today. I get not wanting to add the the complexity that is bootm. But I dont think the script mechanism is the right answer either. - k ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
