On Sep 22, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Kumar Gala,
>
> In message <CF82B92D-9821-495A-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>>
>>>> + if (!images.valid) {
>>>> + printf("Need to call %s start first\n", argv[0]);
>>>> + return 1;
>>>> + }
>>>
>>> We should probably set up a small state machine.
>>
>> A small state machine for what?
>
> Well, we have states - here you code that a certain operation is not
> allowed unless something else has been done before. SImilar
> dependencies may follow - after uncompressing and loading the kernel
> image it might for example be not allowed any more to turn on
> interrupts, etc. Of course we can handle all this in a maze of
> conditional statements. Or we could use a small state machine.
So I'm not sure I completely understand what this state machine would
look like that you are thinking about.
I get the issue, just not seeing the implementation you are thinking
about.
- k
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