[U-Boot] loading environment from SATA

[Fabio Estevam]

Hi Ben,

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Ben Hewson <ben at frazer-nash.com> wrote:
> booting from SATA works very well on my iMX6 based board, however if I do
>
>
> #define CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FAT
>
> #if defined(CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FAT)
>     #define CONFIG_FAT_WRITE
>     #define FAT_ENV_INTERFACE           "sata"
>     #define FAT_ENV_DEVICE_AND_PART     "0:1"
>     #define FAT_ENV_FILE                "u-boot.env"
> #endif
>
>
> nothing is loaded as the SATA has not been initialised.
>
> Looking at board_r.c  I can see lots of inits, for mmc, nand and other stuff,
> but not sata.
>
> Following the format I have added a function
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_CMD_SATA
> static int initr_sata(void)
> {
>         puts("SATA:   ");
>         sata_initialize();
>         return 0;
> }
> #endif
>
> and inside init_fnc_t init_sequence_r[] = { after
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_MMC
>         initr_mmc,
> #endif
>
> I have added
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_CMD_SATA
>         initr_sata,
> #endif
>
>
> So this compiled and booted and to my surprise worked.

Could you please send a formal patch to the list?

Process is described here: http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches

Thanks,

Fabio Estevam