[U-Boot] U-Boot 2015 and u-boot-fw-utils 2017.09

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In message <20180111100422.7957c7f3 at jawa> you wrote:
> > 
> > > I am using U-Boot 2015.04, and the new root file system for my
> > > platform includes u-boot-fw-utils 2017.09. I have noticed that
> > > fw_{print,set}env utilities are no longer working.
> > 
> > Strace output would be helpful here....
> 
> Definitely.  Ideally both for the old, working, and for the new,
> failing, version.
> 
> > The fw_* utils were a bit reworked around 2017.09 (there were some
> > build breaks of it IIRC), so yes you may see some problems.
> 
> But then, the actual format of the environment data has never been
> changed, so we really need more details.

Speaking of the fw tools, I have always wanted to be able to specify
"whole mtd device" for plain NOR flash in fw_env.config so instead of 
 /dev/mtd1		0x0000		0x4000		0x4000
One could jsut say 
 /dev/mtd1		0x0000		0x4000
like one can do for SPI flash. Thoughts ?

 Jocke