[U-Boot] [RFD] store env size in env area (+ cookie + len)

Alexander Stein alexander.stein at systec-electronic.com
Thu Aug 12 10:07:20 CEST 2010


On Thursday 12 August 2010, 09:27:31 you wrote:
> Why not store the size of the environment sector as env variable? The
> size should be only needed for storing the environment and not for
> loading (as it is terminated by a '\0'). So we could load the
> environment, check for "env_size" and if its not there take the value
> from fw_env.config

Another possibility is to use an own mtd partition for env storage. This way 
you shouldn't need to know any size or offset at all.

Best regards,
Alexander


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