Add a spawn command which runs another command in the background, as
well as a wait command to suspend the shell until one or more background
jobs have completed. The job_id environment variable is set by spawn and
wait accepts optional job ids, so that one can selectively wait on any
job.
Another example showing how background jobs can make initlizations
faster. The board is i.MX93 EVK, with one spinning HDD connected to
USB1 via a hub, and a network cable plugged into ENET1.
# From power up / reset
u-boot=> setenv autoload 0
u-boot=> setenv ud "usb start; dhcp"
u-boot=> time run ud
[...]
time: 8.058 seconds
# From power up / reset
u-boot=> setenv autoload 0
u-boot=> setenv ud "spawn usb start; spawn dhcp; wait"
u-boot=> time run ud
[...]
time: 4.475 seconds