Hi,
On 2/11/26 8:53 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 11:13:40PM +0100, Marco Felsch wrote:
>> While specifying the barebox environment within the barebox dts is very
>> helpful for standalone barebox development it's difficult for BSPs which
>> use this development platform and want to use the GPT mechanism.
>> As a result BSPs had to manually delete the nodes via a external
>> provided dts, because we wanted to keep the comfort for the standalone
>> development flow.
>>
>> Lucky commit 86531d4bf7aa ("commands: create createnv command")
>> introduced a convenient helper to create a barebox environemnt on
>> demand exactly for this purpose:
>>
>> | "We want to move away from describing the barebox environment explicitly
>> | in the device tree and instead motivate usage of GPT partitions.."
>>
>> So start with the i.MX8MP-EVK to encourage the use of GPT partitions and
>> to make the BSP integration for these development platforms easier.
>
> Generally I like this idea, but it breaks the existing users
> environment and doing this sharp cut might be annoying for the phase
> where you switch between different barebox versions which could be quite
> common for development boards.
>
> Would be great to have a grace period in which we prefer the UUID
> environment over the device tree environment (we might do this already)
> and warn in case we still use the latter. We could stick the warning to
> a device tree property like "warn-deprecated-env" and remove the
> environment once they carry this property for a year or so.
>
> Just the ideas from the top of my head. Thoughts?
Here's my opinion from a year back:
https://lore.barebox.org/barebox/[email protected]/
I am interested to hear thoughts on it.
Compared to our suggestion, there will be no eventual removal of the node.
Cheers,
Ahmad
>
> Sascha
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marco Felsch <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-evk.dts | 43 -------------------------------------
>> 1 file changed, 43 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-evk.dts b/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-evk.dts
>> index e6f8c2d1b482..37798fa99efa 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-evk.dts
>> +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx8mp-evk.dts
>> @@ -12,19 +12,6 @@
>> / {
>> barebox,deep-probe;
>>
>> - chosen {
>> - environment-sd {
>> - compatible = "barebox,environment";
>> - device-path = &env_sd2;
>> - status = "disabled";
>> - };
>> - environment-emmc {
>> - compatible = "barebox,environment";
>> - device-path = &env_sd3;
>> - status = "disabled";
>> - };
>> - };
>> -
>> gpio-leds {
>> status {
>> barebox,default-trigger = "heartbeat";
>> @@ -78,33 +65,3 @@ &usb_dwc3_0 {
>> usb-role-switch;
>> status = "okay";
>> };
>> -
>> -&usdhc2 {
>> - #address-cells = <1>;
>> - #size-cells = <1>;
>> -
>> - partition@0 {
>> - label = "barebox";
>> - reg = <0x0 0xe0000>;
>> - };
>> -
>> - env_sd2: partition@e0000 {
>> - label = "barebox-environment";
>> - reg = <0xe0000 0x20000>;
>> - };
>> -};
>> -
>> -&usdhc3 {
>> - #address-cells = <1>;
>> - #size-cells = <1>;
>> -
>> - partition@0 {
>> - label = "barebox";
>> - reg = <0x0 0xe0000>;
>> - };
>> -
>> - env_sd3: partition@e0000 {
>> - label = "barebox-environment";
>> - reg = <0xe0000 0x20000>;
>> - };
>> -};
>> --
>> 2.47.3
>>
>>
>>
>
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