[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 5/5] RFC: tegra: Convert to using environment files

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Oct 28 21:34:08 CET 2013


Hi Stephen,

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 10/25/2013 11:01 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>> This seems more intuitive that the current #define way of doing things.
>> The resulting code is shorter, avoids the quoting and line continuation
>> pain, and also improves the clumsy way that stdio variables are created:
>>
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_VIDEO_TEGRA
>>  #define STDOUT_LCD ",lcd"
>>  #else
>>  #define STDOUT_LCD ""
>>  #endif
>>
>> ...
>>  #define TEGRA_DEVICE_SETTINGS \
>>       "stdout=serial" STDOUT_LCD "\0" \
>>       ...
>>
>> The MEM_LAYOUT_ENV_SETTINGS variable is left in the header files, since
>> it depends on the SOC type and we probably don't want to add .emv files
>> for each board at this stage.
>
> I guess I'm fine with this as long as e.g.
> board/compulab/env/trimslice.env can contain:
>
> #include "../../../board/nvidia/env/common.env"
>
> ... or perhaps the include path is set up to include board/nvidia/env
> already, so it could just contain:
>
> #include <common-nvidia.env>
>
>> diff --git a/board/nvidia/env/common.env b/board/nvidia/env/common.env
>
>> +bootcmd_mmc0=setenv devnum 0; run mmc_boot
>> +bootcmd_mmc1=setenv devnum 1; run mmc_booxt
>> +boot_targets+= mmc1 mmc0
>
> I still don't see why = needs no space before/after, but += needs no
> space before, but a space after. That simply looks like a typo to me,
> and I'd be inclined to fix it were I editing this file. If a sed script
> can't handle more flexible white-space, perhaps use Python or perhaps
> Perl instead?

The old code was similar, in that it had a space after the quote.

We need the string to contain "mmc0 mmc1 usb0 dhcp" or perhaps "mmc0
mmc1". I chose to add a space at the start of each string, but
certainly we need a space somewhere, or we get "mmc0mmc1usb0dhcp".

Regards,
Simon


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