Re: [U-Boot] load file to memory in standalone program

21 May 2013


      Dear Henrik,
In message 1368920138.23379.14.camel@localhost you wrote:
...
I think it would be a great addition to add generic filesystem
operations to the standalone API. The fs_read() and fs_write() functions
should be possible to export via the standalone API as-is, but should
probably be wrapped a little bit to select which filesystem/partition to
operate on, similar to do_load() but without the u-boot env magics or
variable arguments.
Technically you may be right.  The reason why we intentionally
maintain a very lean interface to standalone programs is that we allow
such applications to be distributed even under non-GPL licenses.
If you need more fancy features, just add your code to U-Boot and
distribute it under GPL.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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