In message 48985761.5010800@ge.com you wrote:
Yes, that is Wolfgang's (and my) proposal: rationalize the built-in "bootm" to do just #6. Steps 1-5 already exist as built-in commands or commands could be created almost trivially to invoke the existing code. The current "bootm" behavior would then be emulated by a bootm script chaining them together. All the different "bootm" behaviors would then be in the script (customizable by the user) rather than being hard-compiled into the actual bootm built-in command.
I just would like to point out that this is also a great chance to get rid of a lot of architecture dependent code:
lib_arm/bootm.c lib_avr32/bootm.c lib_blackfin/bootm.c lib_i386/bootm.c lib_m68k/bootm.c lib_microblaze/bootm.c lib_mips/bootm.c lib_nios/bootm.c lib_nios2/bootm.c lib_ppc/bootm.c lib_sh/bootm.c lib_sparc/bootm.c
There is a LOT of duplicated code in these files...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk