In message F6AD7E21CDF4E145A44F61F43EE6D939CBC6FC@tmnt04.transmode.se you wrote:

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How about the bootm stuff? That seems to always be present.

Indeed. U-Boot is a boot loader, so we assume you will always want to load and boot.

So I am the first that found another use :)

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I am thinking about doing an very small boot to that will

be quick to

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program over JTAG and that boot will only install other images, including replacing itself, using tftp.

-> size common/cmd_bootm.o text data bss dec hex filename 7000 520 0 7520 1d60 common/cmd_bootm.o

Do you really think this will make any visible difference in terms of download speed? It's probably just 3...5% of the image size.

Well, thats one of many. Also I THINK you should be able to loose some other bits needed by bootm such as zlib(10K) possibly crc32 also.

Jocke