Wolfgang,
this is what I need to do: we have u-boot running on a PCI adapter card. The whatever-image is directly loaded into the card's RAM over the PCI bus. Then we trigger booting the image by modifying a magic RAM cell.
Currently only Linux kernel images and combined kernel + initrd images are supported. Now we want to allow using u-boot scripts with the same mechanism.
So if you think that a "universal" boot command would blow things up to much, I will think of a mofication of our loadpci BSP command. I will decide inside this command if bootm or autoscr must be used.
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Yes. Bootm is intended to boot (Linux) kernel images, that's all. There are other commands to deal with other objects, like "go" for standalone images, "autoscr" for scripts,
Yes, I know.
Please keep the design smalland simple. We don't need no eierlegende Woll-Milch-Säue in U-Boot :-)
Well, it would be just one more case in the bootm switch statement.
Matthias