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Holger Schurig f1f532084a commands: harmonize in-barebox documentation
This patch does probably too much, but it's hard (and very
cumbersome/time consuming) to break it out. What is does is this:

* each command has one short description, e.g. "list MUX configuration"
* made sure the short descriptions start lowercase
* each command has one usage. That string contains just the
  options, e.g. "[-npn]". It's not part of the long help text.
* that is, it doesn't say "[OPTIONS]" anymore, every usable option
  is listed by character in this (short) option string (the long
  description is in the long help text, as before)
* help texts have been reworked, to make them
  - sometimes smaller
  - sometimes describe the options better
  - more often present themselves in a nicer format
* all long help texts are now created with BUSYBOX_CMD_HELP_
  macros, no more 'static const __maybe_unused char cmd_foobar_help[]'
* made sure the long help texts starts uppercase
* because cmdtp->name and cmdtp->opts together provide the new usage,
  all "Usage: foobar" texts have been removed from the long help texts
* BUSYBOX_CMD_HELP_TEXT() provides the trailing newline by itself, this
  is nicer in the source code
* BUSYBOX_CMD_HELP_OPT() provides the trailing newline by itself
* made sure no line gets longer than 77 characters
* delibertely renamed cmdtp->usage, so that we can get compile-time
  errors (e.g. in out-of-tree modules that use register_command()
* the 'help' command can now always emit the usage, even without
  compiled long help texts
* 'help -v' gives a list of commands with their short description, this
  is similar like the old "help" command before my patchset
* 'help -a' gives out help of all commands

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
2014-05-14 10:03:43 +02:00
Holger Schurig ab23d0bb3f commands: group 'help' output
The old output of "help" was just producing a long list, that usually
scrolled of the screen (even on a X11 terminal). This list is more
compact, and also sorted by groups.

The old output format (plus grouping) is now available with 'help -v'.

Example:

   Information commands:
     ?, devinfo, help, iomem, meminfo, version
   Boot commands:
     boot, bootm, go, loadb, loads, loadx, loady, saves, uimage
   ...

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
2014-05-14 07:59:55 +02:00
Sascha Hauer bed8fb6de1 Add in-system barebox update infrastructure
Currently in-system update means to write an arbitrary file to
an arbitrary device. There is no sanity check if the flashed image
is of the right type or will fit onto the device. Furthermore some
SoCs need a special preparation step for their images before
flashing them.

This adds a barebox in-system update infrastructure. Boards can
register update handlers which know how to make the board bootable.
The available handlers can be listed to be able to select one,
different force levels give the user the chance to know it better.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
2012-10-17 20:23:41 +02:00