Sometimes we do not want redirect u-boot's console to screen but anyway we want
write out some status information out of a u-boot script to the display.

So we cannot use the normal "echo ....", instead we write explicitly using
"lcdputs ..." for writing to the actual cursor position on LCD.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Petermaier <oe5...@oevsv.at>

---
Changes for v2:
  - better understandable commit-message
  - rename "puts" into "lcdputs"
  - move code from lcd.c to lcd_console.c
---
 common/lcd_console.c |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/common/lcd_console.c b/common/lcd_console.c
index 5363232..8bf83b9 100644
--- a/common/lcd_console.c
+++ b/common/lcd_console.c
@@ -225,8 +225,26 @@ static int do_lcd_setcursor(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, 
int argc,
        return 0;
 }
 
+static int do_lcd_puts(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
+                      char *const argv[])
+{
+       if (argc != 2)
+               return CMD_RET_USAGE;
+
+       lcd_puts(argv[1]);
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
 U_BOOT_CMD(
        setcurs, 3,     1,      do_lcd_setcursor,
        "set cursor position within screen",
        "    <col> <row> in character"
 );
+
+U_BOOT_CMD(
+       lcdputs, 2,     1,      do_lcd_puts,
+       "print string on lcd-framebuffer",
+       "    <string>"
+);
+
-- 
1.7.10.4

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