Dear Jerry Van Baren,
In message 489C7A65.50709@ge.com you wrote:
Wolfgang advocated supporting the old parser. Personally, I'm OK with requiring hush in order to enable the New Improved bootm behavior and leaving users of the old parser with the old bootm (arrrr, more #ifdefs). I'm not sure we can get to a reasonable state without /some/ hush conditionals.
I think it would be foolish to cripple or kill a bootm refactor simply because we were unwilling to require hush.
I think that the default boot behaviour will not need *any* shell commands, because we can implement this easily in C function calls.
It is just when a user wants to redefine boot behaviour that the shell interface comes into play, and then it's the user's decision if he has simple needs that can be implemented with the old parser, or if he needs more scripting capabilities and has to enable hush.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk