[U-Boot] [PATCH 6/6] arm: am57xx: Keep environment in eMMC

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Mar 9 13:22:06 CET 2016


On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 05:46:49PM +0700, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Lokesh Vutla <a0131933 at ti.com> wrote:
> > Any specific reason why you want this change?
> >
> 
> Yes, I'm thinking about use case when developer uses eMMC exclusively
> (no SD card). In that case the environment should be stored somewhere,
> and that should be eMMC. In other words, once eMMC support is fully
> available in U-Boot, we can think more about eMMC use-case, because
> developers usually prefer to work with eMMC. Also see how it's done in
> DRA7 config, for example. And in SD card use case we can still work
> with environment stored in eMMC. Seems like win-win to me.

Except the DRA7 boards don't also support a community board like am57xx
does, the Beagle x15.  That's a big SD heavy use-case.

-- 
Tom
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