[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: omap5_uevm: Correct the console sys prompt for 5432

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Mon Jun 24 22:30:54 CEST 2013


On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:33:11AM +0200, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:53:42 -0400, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 04:30:38PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> > 
> > > Correct the console sys prompt to display the correct processor
> > > and the corrent board
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy at ti.com>
> > > Reported-by: Lubomir Popov <lpopov at mm-sol.com>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>
> > 
> > But personally, this is why I'm a fan of 'U-Boot # ' as the prompt :)
> 
> I'd like it too if we could simply have all boards using the same
> prompt, but there might be some scripts out there which rely on the
> prompt being something else than "U-Boot # ' or worse yet, using the
> prompt to determine which variant of the HW the scripts are dealing
> with.

True.  Looking ahead however, given device trees and the need to know
what tree to request/load, I hope more boards will go with enabling
CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG and can then use cpu/board/board_name as
needed to determine those things at run-time.

-- 
Tom
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