[RFC PATCH] Provide mechanism for build-time default env entries

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Joel,

In message <ac347e2e978aa082fc516c789d0f9048 at lixil.net> you wrote:
>
> > I think you are following a wrong approach.  Such user specific
> > settings should IMHO loaded separately, either over serial like
> > (should be fast enough for a few hundred bytes) or from external
> > storage. "env import" is your friend.
>
> I'm intentionally trying to have no persistent environment separate from 
> boot image.

In which way does this prevent you from following my suggestion?
such a separate environment block (in any format, either as plain
ASCII text, or binary, or as checksummed blob) can easily be
attached to the U-Boot image and handled as a combined unit.  Then
you just import the additional environment from this well-known
address.  This gives you all the possibilities you have for handling
the environment, conflict free.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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