[U-Boot] [PATCH 24/30] km/common: add pnvramsize to default environment
Holger Brunck
holger.brunck at keymile.com
Mon May 2 09:41:29 CEST 2011
Hi Mr. Denk,
On 04/30/2011 10:32 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Valentin Longchamp,
>
> In message <ba20e078a0b5ac55510f321b282dbff192ffba15.1302272395.git.valentin.longchamp at keymile.com> you wrote:
>> From: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck at keymile.com>
>>
>> The pnvram size was used later from start scripts in linux. Therefore
>> it must be set inside u-boot.
>
> How does this work? A plain setenv() here just adds an entry to the
> hash table where U-Boot stores the variables. This data is not
> accessable in Linux ("start scripts in linux" being init scripts?)
>
Argh. Good catch. It actually works because we do initially one time a saveenv
when we start a boot with the "release environment". But it isn't good to be
dependent to a previously saveenv. I will remove it there and add this variable
to the default environment.
Best regards
Holger Brunck
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