Kumar Gala 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 galak@kernel.crashing.org
Hi Kumar,
I've been hacking at cmd_bootm.c and image.c. The direction I'm hacking in is: * Move boot_* stuff from image.c into cmd_bootm.c - Calling out to another file to a function unused in that file? Ugly. * Move the FIT stuff out of image.c into a new file fit_image.c - The resulting files are more cohesive and less BIG. * Move the im* commands out of cmd_bootm.c into a new file cmd_image.c - At one time, I was of the opinion that "bootm (loados|ramdisk|fdt)" should be "ldimage (os|ramdisk|fdt)". I'm less sure of myself, but have not totally discarded the opinion. - Looking in cmd_bootm.c for im* commands is rather unintuitive.
My intent is to do this hacking based on your bootm subcommand changes, so we can do a two-step cleanup.
Do you have a git repo I can clone rather than trying to keep up with the master repo + your patches? My tracking of your work is falling apart. I see you have an out-of-date repo on git.kernel.org, can you update that perhaps?
Thanks, gvb