[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] mx28evk: extend default environment

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Marek,

In message <201205292314.04143.marex at denx.de> you wrote:
> 
> > Not because I consider it inherently bad, but for example because it
> > is different from what we, our customers, our documentation and our
> > test scripts are used to.
> 
> Then I guess some kind of "common env" for all boards won't happen ?

I don't see a real chance. Pick any of the bigger vendors - say
Freescale: do you consider it a realistic chance that all their
boards (PPC, ARM, ColdFire, what else) get converted to a common
environment? Do you expect that TI and Samsung and Marvell and ...
agree with this approach and apply it on thier boards as ell? Or vice
versa?


I think the best we can do is factor out some parts we consider well
designed, and use these in the boards in our own responsibility.  Then
we can start pointing people at that and try to convince them to
accept this for new stuff added.

But reorganizing existing environents is basicly impossible - all the
bigger vendors will tell you how much effort it would take to update
just all the documentation, not to mention to update all the boards
and scrpts and handle the resulting board breakages / brickages.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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