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LITE5200B User’s Manual, Rev. 0
Freescale Semiconductor
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– Start application at address ‘ADDR.’
go addr [arg ...]
– Start application at address 'addr' passing 'arg' as arguments.
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U-Boot has support for so-called standalone applications. These are programs that do not require the
complex environment of an operating system to run. Instead they can be loaded and executed by U-Boot
directly, utilizing U-Boot's service functions like console I/O or malloc() and free().
This can be used to dynamically load and run special extensions to U-Boot like special hardware test
routines or bootstrap code to load an OS image from some filesystem. The go command is used to start
such standalone applications. The optional arguments are passed to the application without modification.
For more information, see U-Boot Standalone Applications.