[U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2, 1/9] omap: overo: allow the use of a plain text env file instead boot scripts
Tom Rini
trini at ti.com
Sat May 24 01:50:49 CEST 2014
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:04:47PM -0700, Ash Charles wrote:
> Adapted from d70f5480 described below.
>
> commit d70f54808dfa83b574e1239c3eccbcf3317343e1
> Author: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier at dowhile0.org>
> Date: Mon Jan 7 03:51:20 2013 +0000
>
> omap4: allow the use of a plain text env file instead boot scripts
>
> 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 OMAP4 supported boards (Panda and TI SDP4430) are used
> primarily for development, this patch allows 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez at collabora.co.uk>
> Acked-by: Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter A. Bigot <pab at pabigot.com>
> Tested-by: Ash Charles <ash at gumstix.com>
Applied to u-boot-ti/master, thanks!
--
Tom
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