[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] imx: Define common routines to set cpu and board environment variables

[Marek Vasut]

Dear Eric Nelson,

> On 11/14/2013 04:30 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> > 
> >> Thanks Marek,
> >> 
> >> On 11/14/2013 02:22 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> Dear Eric Nelson,
>  > 
>  > <snip>
>  > 
> >> I'm just hoping to get a trivial amount of machinery so a boot
> >> 
> >> script can figure out which of a set of DTBs to load:
> >> 	imx6q-nitrogen6x.dtb,
> >> 	imx6dl-nitrogen6x.dtb, or
> >> 	imx6s-nitrogen6x.dtb
> >> 
> >> Fabio's recent patch for SABRE SD showed the same need.
> > 
> > Full agreement here.
> > 
> >> This could be even easier on i.MX6 if we had more formalized (and
> >> lower-case) strings returned by get_imx_type(), but I wanted this
> >> to be very small.
> >> 
> >> I'm not sure how consistent the DTB naming is for other machines
> >> or if there's always the equivalent of get_imx_type().
> > 
> > In the worst-case scenario, you might end up with some mapping function
> > full of strcmp()s ;-)
> 
> This is much easier for us to do, since we defer much of the
> scripting into a boot script.
> 
> It will be harder for Fabio to shoe-horn in until we get environment
> settings in an external file...

Yeah, patching the env unto u-boot is the way to go here I guess. What's the 
progress on this anyway, Tom ?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut