[U-Boot] [PATCH] omap5: Allow use of a plain text env file

Sricharan R r.sricharan at ti.com
Sun Mar 24 05:20:50 CET 2013


Hi Nishanth,

On Saturday 23 March 2013 08:57 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On 03/22/2013 08:03 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
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>> On 03/22/2013 06:43 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>>> For production systems it is better to use script images since they
>>> are protected by checksums and carry valuable information like name
>>> and timestamp. Also, you can't validate the content passed to env
>>> import.
>>>
>>> But for development, it is easier to use the env import command
>>> and plain text files instead of script-images.
>>>
>>> Since both OMAP5evm/uevm boards are used primarily for
>>> development, we allow U-Boot to load env var from a text file in
>>> case that an boot.scr script-image is not present.
>>>
>>> The variable uenvcmd (if existent) will be executed (using run)
>>> after uEnv.txt was loaded. If uenvcmd doesn't exist the default
>>> boot sequence will be started.
>>>
>>> Inspired by commit: d70f54808dfa83b574e1239c3eccbcf3317343e1
>>> (omap4: allow the use of a plain text env file instead boot
>>> scripts)
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com>
>>
>> OK, Sricharan is also working on something like this, with a few other
>> changes as well (Use zImage, load fdt).  I suspect we'll be taking
>> that in.
> is there a patch posted in u-boot list? or at least an ETA when we might be able to see such a patch?
> Regards,
> Nishanth Menon
> 
 I added this in the series.

    http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg109030.html

Regards,
 Sricharan



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