uboot/doc/README.commands
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   2Commands are added to U-Boot by creating a new command structure.
   3This is done by first including command.h
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   5Then using the U_BOOT_CMD() macro to fill in a cmd_tbl_t struct.
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   7U_BOOT_CMD(name,maxargs,repeatable,command,"usage","help")
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   9name:    is the name of the commad. THIS IS NOT a string.
  10maxargs: the maximumn numbers of arguments this function takes
  11command: Function pointer (*cmd)(struct cmd_tbl_s *, int, int, char *[]);
  12usage:   Short description. This is a string
  13help:    long description. This is a string
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  15
  16**** Behinde the scene ******
  17
  18The structure created is named with a special prefix (__u_boot_cmd_)
  19and placed by the linker in a special section.
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  21This makes it possible for the final link to extract all commands
  22compiled into any object code and construct a static array so the
  23command can be found in an array starting at __u_boot_cmd_start.
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  25If a new board is defined do not forget to define the command section
  26by writing in u-boot.lds ($(TOPDIR)/board/boardname/u-boot.lds) these
  273 lines:
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  29        __u_boot_cmd_start = .;
  30        .u_boot_cmd : { *(.u_boot_cmd) }
  31        __u_boot_cmd_end = .;
  32