[U-Boot] Can I load uEnv.txt conditionally, based on the boot source?

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at gmail.com
Wed Feb 11 19:57:15 CET 2015


Hi Brian,

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Brian Smucker <bds at bsmucker.eu.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> That would be the most obvious thing, wouldn't it.  I thought of that,
but am not sure of the answer in u-boot.

Remember not to top post to the list.

Many devices have a GPIO driver available.  Sometimes it's not enabled by
the default config.  As long as the pin is a GPIO as well as a boot-mode
selector it should be easiest to just read the state of the line and load
the file or not based on that in a shell script.

Cheers,
-Joe

> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
> On 2/11/2015 12:09 AM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Brian Smucker <bds at bsmucker.eu.org>
wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if there is a way to tell what the boot source is?
> >
> > My am335x SOC can boot to the mmc or the flash, based on the status of
a digital line. I would like to load the uEnv.txt, only if booting from SD
card (mmc).  I notice at least in some codebases that the automatic loading
of uEnv.txt is based on whether the SD card is available, not whether we
are currently booting from the SD card.
> >
> > Is there a way to sense which we are booting from?
>
> Are you able to read the same digital line that the SoC is using to
decide?
>
>


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