[U-Boot-Users] Accessing environment from linux?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <8D7C5F56B409554D9D46AC22195807F3061C8A at exchwenz01.dmcwave.co.nz> you wrote:
> 
> A long time ago these questions were being asked about accessing the
> PPC/U-Boot environment variables from Linux I would be very interested in
> any code to do this even partly working code and I would be happy to
> complete the code / debug the code.
> 
> Was this work ever completed and if so:

AFAIK the work was never completed,  i.  e.  it  supports  only  some
storage  media  (environment  in  flash  memory,  but not in NVRAM or
EEPROM on I2C or SPI bus).

> A. Where can I find it.

In the U-Boot source tree, in the "tools/env" directory.

See "tools/env/README" for details.

> B. Would some kind person mind sending me the code to finish / use

Check it out from CVS :-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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