[U-Boot-Users] LIBFDT: bd_t and env embedding (was actual stxxtc board maintainer?)

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <474C12AF.4000905 at ge.com> you wrote:

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> I'm just having a hard time letting go of my dream of FDT world 
> domination, starting with using a blob to hold the u-boot env variables. :-)

We will feed your dreams.

Please be prepared to review and comment on the new image format
postings I expect to sees really soon now...

> If we ever /do/ have an option to store env variables in a blob, we 
> won't need to have (the current) extra code to jam the non-FDT env 
> variables into the blob anyway.  ;-)

Why would you want to store environment variables in a FDT blob?

In nearly all cases  they  serve  pretty  much  completely  different
purposes, and they can be accessed through different methods.

> I don't have any problem removing both the bd_t *and* the env embedding 
> "features" since the former is evil and the latter is unused.

Then we at least agreee on that :-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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