[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] expand macros in bootargs env var for bootm command

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <7938.1120137797 at huldra> you wrote:
>
> I wanted to define the flash partition map in the kernel command line.
> I want to do this with reference to other u-boot environment variables,
> which contain the start addresses and sizes for each partition (just
> numbers).

We're working on something in this  area,  too  (allowing  U-Boot  to
"edit"  the  partitions,  especially  on NAND devices, and to automa-
tically generate the required kernel arguments.

> I found that if the "bootargs" environment variable contained macros, they

This is intentional.

> were not expanded before the command line was passed to the kernel. The patch
> does this expansion.

You can expand all macros when building the bootargs variable like it
is shown in all the examples in the DULG; is there any  problem  with
that?

> No worries - I will do that, except I don't know what they are. Where are
> the rules defined? If you can give me a link I will study them before I
> submit any more patches.

See section "Submitting Patches" in the README.

There is no excuse for not reding the README.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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