[U-Boot-Users] Submitting Patch at sourceforge fails

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Ulf,

in message <002e01c6c61d$80cc1f10$f64765d5 at atmel.com> you wrote:
>
> No can do unfortunately, (this is not an official Atmel activity) and I
> don't run any personal servers.

I see. Maybe Atmel is helpful anyway? They should  be  interested  in
such activities...

> Never used git, but I guess it is time to start.

Definitely.

> Is it possible to run git on a Windows machine w Cygwin?

I have no idea. Never used Windoze, never will.

> > I'm not sure I want to have this. Is there a way to  specify  a  time
> > out?  Couldn't  /  shouldn't  this  be  implemented on CLI level, for
> > example by repeating the failed TFTP command? If  necessary  using  a
> > hush script?
> 
> You may be right about that, then again, hush adds code ;-( as well.

...except  that  thjis  code  is  already  present   and   considered
"standard" (i. e. bourne shell compatible).

> I usually differ between things I have to do once and things I have to
> do repeatedly
> and the attempts are to put some effort in reducing the things that
> needs to be done repeatedly.
> The target directory would be supplied once and thats it.
> The split into "make & make install" causes you to lose time when you
> forget to do the make install

Define a shell function or a shell script or a  Makefile  which  runs
U-Boot's "make all" as a first target.

> Yes, the source code is there, but the patch generates a binary as part
> of the
> build process and this binary is totally separated from the u-boot
> binary. 
> It is released to GPL level 2 and later.

The reason I'm asking is that I don't intend to include  any  non-GPL
code into the public U-Boot source tree.

> >> If you work with several files and download them from the tftpboot
> >> directory then you want to have different names for the files.
> > 
> > Yes, of course, but do we need special commands for that?
> 
> It is not a special command, it is a tool outside the u.boot binary.

Call it command or tool or program or application or ...

> I still fail to see how I can to a table lookup easily.

As I mentioned before: do it in two steps. In the first step, generate
a statement with the index expanded, in the second step to the
dereferencing.

> I guess it would be possible with hush to do a long if statement.

Not needed.

> >> setenv rd     ${rd-${ver}}
> > 
> > We cannot do this in a single step, we need two.
> > 
> 
> Can you show how this is done, I do not see how.
> setenv rd-1 xxx
> setenv rd-2 yyy
> setenv ver 1
> <magic>
> print  rd
> $ xxx
> setenv ver 2
> <magic>
> $ yyy
> 
> Please explain how to implement <magic>

Simple:

	=> sete rd-1 xxx
	=> sete rd-2 yyy
	=> sete rd-3 zzz
	u> sete foo 'sete bar sete rd $\\{rd-${ver}};run bar'
	=> sete ver 1
	=> run foo ; print rd
	rd=xxx
	=> sete ver 2
	=> run foo ; print rd
	rd=yyy
	=> sete ver 3        
	=> run foo ; print rd
	rd=zzz
	=> 

You see, we don't even need any hush features.

Next problem, please :-)


> I can see that the following is possible.
> setenv rd1 'setenv rd ${rd-1}'
> setenv rd2 'setenv rd ${rd-2}'
> setenv rd3 'setenv rd ${rd-3}'
> setenv rd4 'setenv rd ${rd-4}'
> setenv rd5 'setenv rd ${rd-5}'
> setenv rd6 'setenv rd ${rd-6}'

Yes, many things are possible.  But  this  is  probably  not  exactly
optimal.

> raw-at91 is a tool which automates console input, admittedly in a stupid
> way,and relies on minicom.

OK, then I will not accept it.  I  hate  minicom,  and  I'm  actively
blackballing it ;-)

> The advantage of minicom is that I do not have to type any filenames,
> since I can select the file using up/downarrow and space.
> and I do not have to generate any scripts,since I just type in the
> commands I want as is in a file and send it down
> without having to type the file name of the environment file which I
> have to do for "expect" and "kermit".

Come on. Kermit does file name completion, so the typing effort is
minimal.

> I sometimes, when travelling , use the IMAP server from a PC but 
> still I think the only option is to request people to avoid sending the
> stuff to the IMAP server.

Please fix your mail setup. There are established standards, and  you
have little chance of redefining these.

> Any important mails are better of sent to ulf at atmel.com

Then make sure this is used as From: and Return-path:

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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