Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc/bootm: Flush ramdisk and device tree image when booting on MP

On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Kumar Gala galak@kernel.crashing.org wrote:

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•   if (flag & BOOTM_STATE_OS_PREP) {
  

•           boot_prep_linux(images);
           return 0;
  

•   }
  
   if (flag & BOOTM_STATE_OS_GO) {
           boot_jump_linux(images);
           return 0;
   }
  
  

•   boot_prep_linux(images);
  

Why are we calling boot_prep_linux(images) when "flag & BOOTM_STATE_OS_PREP" is zero? If we don't want the OS to be PREPped, then why call a function named boot_prep_linux()?

We call it in both cases, one is for 'normal' bootm command the other is for 'bootm subcommand'.

- k