Dear Remy,
In message 3efb10970907071216h57288a2an91701c1c851dea9e@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
Thanks for mentioning this. But this is explicitly restricted to "stand alone applications", with a pretty tightly limited set of functions exported to such code. It is not intended to be extended into something like loadable modules that can access much more of U-Boot's internal code.
AFAIK this limitation of extension is not stated anywhere in the documentation that is delivered with U-boot. (If I am wrong, please point me to the location where this is stated)
True.
So, I guess every user of U-boot is allowed to extend that interface to even the complete symbol map of U-boot, without doing anything in conflict with the license. You can now say it is not intended, but it is not restricted.
Right. But try it - banging your head against the nearest wall might be a pastime with more opportunities for reward.
And don't expect that such an "extension" had any chance for going into the mainline code.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk