[U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: corenet_ds: increase console buffer size to 1024

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Kim Phillips,

In message <20110926112756.bb93d41b.kim.phillips at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> > Instead of extending buffer sizes just to be able to enter some
> > incomrephensible looooong variable setting you should try and figure
> 
> this variable (which I have been comprehending for years now), is
> part of the default environment configuration for that board, and
> many others - it's defined in the board config file.

Yes, I perfectly understand this.

However, this is not exactly a good reson not to fix (or atl east
improve) that code.

> We need to enable reverting an env var to its original default
> definition.

Do we? We have not had that feature for over a decade and nobody ever
really suffered from it. Now we have "env -f reset" for almost a
year, and guess how many percent of the users even know about this
command? And how many have ever actually used it yet?

> Perhaps over time the nfsboot norm setting should be migrated to
> something more modular in the board config files, but right now,
> users are complaining about simply expecting to being able to type
> two more characters on the command line.

Then educate your users that a boot loader is a resource restricted
environment, and that there at least 10 different ways to do what they
want, at least 8 of them resulting in a much simpler and easier to
comprehend environment setup.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.