[U-Boot] [RFC] Make U-Boot log great again

[Maxime Ripard]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:14:47AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > > Also, for transitioning e.g. from MMC to FAT, we would need a mechanism to
> > > > store to an environment place other than the one selected at load time.
> > > 
> > > Ah, so we have different valid use cases.  Maybe a new env sub-command,
> > > switch?
> > 
> > We implemented it by overwriting the priority look up.
> 
> The general sunxi case is "We need to move from offset to FAT file" as
> there's not really generally other valid cases.  But on other SoCs we
> can both say that it's valid to move from eMMC (we put env in an
> unbootable by the SoC boot partition) to FAT, or not want to move it at
> all.
> 
> Another case I've been thinking of, but would be handled by the code
> as-is, is the "Beagleboard vs Beagleboard xM" case where the board code
> needs to check which we're on and keep env on NAND or finally have env
> on file on FAT".  But even then, allowing an explicit switch might be
> needed, if people want to migrate env to FAT, even on original
> Beagleboard.

Ah, right. That definitely makes sense.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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