[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] tests: py: dfu: Add functionality to set different u-boot's dfu env variable
Lukasz Majewski
l.majewski at majess.pl
Fri Apr 8 22:11:12 CEST 2016
On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:29:31 -0600
Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 04/08/2016 09:44 AM, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> > By default (on almost all systems) the dfu env variable, which
> > defines available alt settings, is named as "dfu_alt_info".
> >
> > However on some platforms (i.e. Odroid XU3), the 'dfu_alt_info' is
> > concatenated from other variables - namely 'dfu_alt_boot' and
> > 'dfu_alt_system' at run time (when one types 'dfu 0 mmc 0' for
> > first time).
> >
> > 'dfu_alt_boot' describes alt settings which depend on boot medium -
> > for example boot loader's LBA sectors which are different on eMMC
> > and SD card because of e.g. MBR/GPT.
> >
> > 'dfu_alt_system' describes board agnostic alt settings - like
> > rootfs, kernel. On such system we can only append/modify this env
> > variable.
> >
> > Because of the above, we must have way to modify other than
> > "dfu_ale_info" variable to perform tests.
>
> > diff --git a/test/py/tests/test_dfu.py b/test/py/tests/test_dfu.py
>
> > + # Optional values.
> > + # Those values are necessary on boards like Odroid XU3,
> > where
> > + # - dfu alt info env variable is concatenated from boot
> > medium dependent
> > + # (dfu_alt_boot) and user defined (dfu_alt_system)
> > variables
> > + "alt_info_env_name": "dfu_alt_system",
>
> The previous value is also optional. I'd suggest simply prefixing
> each optional value with the same text as already used:
>
> # This value is optional.
>
Ok, no problem.
Best regards,
Łukasz Majewski
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