[PATCH 0/7] updates for km board series

Holger Brunck holger.brunck at hitachienergy.com
Wed Dec 7 17:22:27 CET 2022


> On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 02:27:37PM +0000, Holger Brunck wrote:
> > > > - migrate all boards to environment.txt files
> > > > - migrate PPC boards to DM_I2C
> > > > - some cleanup
> > > >
> > > > Holger Brunck (7):
> > > >   board/km: move ls102xa boards to environment text files
> > > >   km/powerpc: migrate to env.txt file
> > > >   board/km/cent2: migrate to environment text file
> > > >   board/km/secu: migrate to use environment text files
> > > >   board/km: remove obsolete ARCH_KIRKWOOD
> > > >   km/ppc: migrate all mpc83xx to DM_I2C
> > > >   km/mpc8360: remove unused CONFIG_SYS_PAXE defines
> > >
> > > Thanks for doing this. As this is the first in my mind big
> > > environment conversion, do you have any further feedback on the
> > > mechanism, things that would make this easier / more useful, etc?
> > >
> >
> > it was quite straight forward and especially for board series which
> > use a hierarchical structure as we do it is easy to use and afterwards
> > much easier to read and to maintain.
> >
> > I only struggled about the strings I had defined  in Kconfig as
> > discussed in another thread about double quoted strings. I removed them
> from there in the end.
> >
> > What would maybe be helpful to have a small script which converts the
> > generated include/generated/environment.h into a textfile which then
> > looks like the environment in your u-boot if you dump it. Then you can
> > quickly do a diff between a dump from your old and your textfile to
> > see if your newly migrated environment is identical.
> 
> Ah good.  Perhaps
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20221128084122.3456680
> -2-max.oss.09 at gmail.com/
> and some documentation / guide around that would help then?
> 

yes this would have been helpful for me.

Best regards
Holger



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