[GitHub] [incubator-nuttx] gustavonihei commented on pull request #4233: board/ctrl: Add BOARDIOC_LOAD_APPIMAGE for loading an application image

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gustavonihei commented on pull request #4233:
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/pull/4233#issuecomment-887473322


   > We really need to avoid adding application-specific BOARDIOC values. That is why BOARDIOC_IOCTL was create: In order to keep this project-specific trash from accumulating in the OS proper.
   
   This might be application-specific, but specific to a type of a application, which in this case is a bootloader.
   How do you suggest that an application performs the loading and execution of the next application image?
   Please, consider that the set of actions are platform-dependent, e.g. Arm processors require that VTOR is configured to point to the new vector table; ESP32 chips have a different set of requirements; other processor may simply need to override the PC with the new entry point.


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