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

[Nishanth Menon]

On 03/23/2013 11:20 PM, Sricharan R wrote:
> 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
thanks.
Regards,
Nishanth Menon