On 08/08/2012 02:25 PM, 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.

Perhaps the issue isn't so much enforcement at a U-Boot level, but more
that we create some standard for what boot.scr/... can expect to exist
in the environment, and say:

distros: this is what you can rely upon in your boot.scr.

board vendors: this is what you need to provide in order for common
Linux distros to work out-of-the-box.

Hopefully that's enough incentive for people to make their U-Boots work?
At least for Tegra I think it will be, but we are pretty early on in
upstream U-Boot terms, so we're quite flexible right now.

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