On Wednesday 08 August 2012 16:25:51 Rob Herring wrote:
> Stephen Warren <swarren@...> writes:
> > Related to this topic also are:
> > 
> > 93d87d5 tegra: define fdt_load/fdt_high variables
> > 4878343 tegra: bootcmd enhancements
> 
> I do like this and it's similar to what I've done for highbank. Actually,
> yours is a bit more flexible. We have the additional need to select a boot
> source by a boot device selection register which is set via ipmi.
> 
> So how do we combine these and have some level of enforcement? There's not
> much concept of common/minimum environment in u-boot. The default
> environment is entirely optional. I worry leaving it as just environment
> settings does not "encourage" people to use it.

we can document a "standard" in u-boot itself that for linux distros, and 
encourage board porters to follow that

you're right that we can't force people to do this, but simply documenting it 
in u-boot and making it the suggested default goes a long way i think
-mike

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