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Re: linux exec fis
>>>>> Gary Thomas writes:
> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 08:56, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:49:33AM -0500, Mark Salter wrote:
>> > Index: hal/arm/arch/current/ChangeLog
>> > ===================================================================
>> > RCS file: /cvs/ecos/ecos/packages/hal/arm/arch/current/ChangeLog,v
>> > retrieving revision 1.85
>> > diff -u -p -5 -r1.85 ChangeLog
>> > --- hal/arm/arch/current/ChangeLog 13 Feb 2003 15:22:34 -0000 1.85
>> > +++ hal/arm/arch/current/ChangeLog 11 Mar 2003 15:37:06 -0000
>> > @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
>> > +2003-03-11 Mark Salter <msalter at redhat dot com>
>> > +
>> > + * src/redboot_linux_exec.c (do_exec): Call eth_drv_stop as necessary.
>> > +
>>
>> Is it possible to do this somewhere within Redboot itself rather than
>> have to modify all the different architecture HAL's and maybe some
>> platform HALs which have there own exec implementation?
>>
> Sadly, I don't see a good way to do that since the 'exec' command
> is optional and [very] platform/architecture specific. However,
> adding this to all [known] implementations would be nice (Mark).
Maybe we could standardize the exec command arguments and then have
the HAL provide the part that does the real work rather than have
everything in the HAL. Well, that's not going to happen today, but
I will search out all of the exec implementations and fix them.
--Mark