default environment append from kconfig

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 08:36, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 01:02:24PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> > On 09/08/2022 12.47, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > is there any kconfig mechanism in u-boot to append environment variable to the
> > > default one?
> > >
> >
> > Well, despite the name, CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS is not settable via
> > kconfig, but only from board header file. And while it works, it's
> > rather cumbersome to maintain that macro expanding to a string with all
> > the embedded \0 and the required \ continuations etc.
>
> I just want to chime in here to note that the biggest blocker to
> removing CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS and migrating it to board.env files
> is how to handle, exactly, distroboot support.  Aside from that,

I will get back to that before long.

> whatever is done in CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS can be done in the .env
> file (unless there's some other fancy macro work being done that I've
> missed).
>
> --
> Tom

Regards,
SImon