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	This patch converts the old method of creating a list of command onto the new LG-arrays code. The old u_boot_cmd section is converted to new u_boot_list_cmd subsection and LG-array macros used as needed. Minor adjustments had to be made to the common code to work with the LG-array macros, mostly the fixup_cmdtable() calls are now passed the ll_entry_start and ll_entry_count instead of linker-generated symbols. The command.c had to be adjusted as well so it would use the newly introduced LG-array API instead of directly using linker-generated symbols. Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
		
			
				
	
	
		
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Commands are added to U-Boot by creating a new command structure.
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This is done by first including command.h, then using the U_BOOT_CMD() macro
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to fill in a cmd_tbl_t struct.
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U_BOOT_CMD(name,maxargs,repeatable,command,"usage","help")
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name:	 is the name of the commad. THIS IS NOT a string.
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maxargs: the maximum number of arguments this function takes
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repeatable: either 0 or 1 to indicate if autorepeat is allowed
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command: Function pointer (*cmd)(struct cmd_tbl_s *, int, int, char *[]);
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usage:	 Short description. This is a string
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help:	 Long description. This is a string
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**** Behind the scene ******
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The structure created is named with a special prefix (__u_boot_list_cmd_)
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and placed by the linker in a special section.
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This makes it possible for the final link to extract all commands
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compiled into any object code and construct a static array so the
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command can be found in an array starting at _u_boot_list_cmd__start.
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To ensure that the linker does not discard these symbols when linking
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full U-Boot we generate a list of all the commands we have built (based
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on the sections mentioned above) and use that to force the linker to
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first enter the symbol as undefined in the output object so that there
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is then a need for the symbol to be kept (this is the UNDEF_SYM logic in
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the Makefile).
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If a new board is defined do not forget to define the command section
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by writing in u-boot.lds ($(TOPDIR)/board/boardname/u-boot.lds) these
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	.u_boot_list : {
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	#include "u-boot.lst";
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	}
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