[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/11] Change some boards to use zImage in default environment

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Feb 12 18:43:35 CET 2014


Hi Stefano,

On 12 February 2014 06:11, Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Marek,
>
> On 12/02/2014 08:49, Marek Vasut wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Anyway, I think the discussion is a bit away from which is the best
> >> image. IMHO the board maintainer can decide which is the more suitable
> >> default environment he needs
> >
> > So, do we now accept new built-in environment changes again?
>
> My good point to refuse them was that Simon's patches to move built-in
> environment to a .env file are quite ready to be merged. I will be happy
> if they can find the way to go in, as they can clean up the whole mess
> we have. Checking only the i.MXes boards, most CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
> are cut&paste from other boards, with some minor changes making them
> inconsistent. The good exception are the sabre boards, because they use
> the same common file.

I am not sure about the .env file patches. I am really not keen on
creating another environment method which doesn't solve the problems
of the existing one. I'll take another look at it sometime and see if
there is any way to square the circle.

Regards,
Simon


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