[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] Add env vars describing U-Boot target board

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon May 21 21:00:04 CEST 2012


Dear Stephen Warren,

In message <1337189793-25367-1-git-send-email-swarren at wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> 
> This can be useful for generic scripts. For example, rather than hard-
> coding a script to ext2load tegra-harmony.dtb, it could load
> ${board_soc}-${board_name}.dtb and hence not need adjustments to
> run on multiple boards.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> ---
> Wolfgang, does this seem like a reasonable feature? If so, can we merge
> it through the Tegra tree, since the next patch enables this for Tegra.
> Thanks!
> 
>  common/Makefile       |    9 +++++++++
>  common/env_common.c   |   15 +++++++++++++++
>  common/env_embedded.c |   15 +++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Please make this optional - I don't want to have this enforced on all
boards, whether they want it or not.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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