Dear Dave Mitchell,
In message 4A5F8A1D.4030701@gmail.com you wrote:
Please find a better description (avoiding "bootstrap"), and then chose a descriptive name.
Keep in mind the processor UM documentation section that covers these boot methods is labeled "Bootstrap Operations". It refers the registers that the EEPROM values populate as "bootstrap registers", etc.
Yes, I know. But then, bootstrapping [1] is really a name with a _very_ fuzzy meaning. It can be anything. The fact thay it was chosen in the UM documentation does't make it better - in U-Boot context I think about other activities, and in Linux context yet about other things.
There is some logic in tying the section of the processor manual to the command. Whatever the command ends up being labeled, it would be nice if its purpose was clear to those who actually work in 4xx space.
We are changing the CPU configuration, right? It has nothing to do with actually booting or bootstrapping? We are setting parameters that will be used by the CPU when it comes up out of reset, that's all.
So maybe we call this config_cpu ?
Not to mention there is documentation referencing the current commands used by the evaluation platforms.
Documentation should be updated when new software versions become available - that's a matter of fact.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk