[U-Boot] [PATCH] wandboard: add pxe support, set default boot command like highbank

[Stefano Babic]

Hi Rob, Dennis,

On 01/08/2013 19:19, Rob Herring wrote:
> You both are missing the point. This patch doesn't address the problem,
> but does highlight it.

I am aware of it - I have already pointed out that we get many patches
that have increased the default environment to something hard to
maintain. This patch makes it more obvious.

> The distros want to get out of having to know the
> u-boot environment details for every single board and need some level of
> standardization across platforms. The distros should only have to
> specify "boot the kernel at path/name X on device Y." They should not
> need to know what address to load the kernel to, but only that
> $kernel_addr_r is already setup. Variables are the first step. The
> second step is standardizing the boot commands.

I understand the point - but is the way to hard code together with
u-boot the right way ? Do we have some other possibilities to do this ?

Maybe can be mkenvimage a solution (tools/mkenvimage) ? It creates an
environment image from a simple ASCII text. The resulting image could be
concatenated together with u-boot and in CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS we
could have for all boards a way to load it. Only a first idea, but as we
recognize the issue, any idea to solve it ?

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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