[U-Boot] [U-Boot, 01/34] Add target to generate initial environment

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 09:46:45AM +0100, Stefano Babic wrote:

> The initial environment is linked to the u-boot binary. Modifying the
> environment from User Space with the env tools requires that the tools
> are always built together with the bootloader to be sure that they
> contain the initial environment in case no environment is stored into
> persistent storage or when a board boots with just the default
> environment. This makes difficult for distros to provide a general
> package to access the environment. A simpler way is if the tools are
> generic for all boards and a configuration file is given to provide the
> initial environment.
> 
> The patch just generates the initial environment by extracting it from
> the compiled object. This file can then be used for tools in user space
> to initialize the environment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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