Hi there1

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:07:26 +0100, Per Andersson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Joachim Breitner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The current installer (our shell script at
>> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/files.git;a=blob;f=install.sh;h=3129466b5af432b93d60f445600eb8ced4a6ee75;hb=master
>> ) has some disabled code to configure uBoot with the uboot-envtools (or
>> a perl script that tries to do the same). I experienced uboot
>> environment corruption when trying it, so if you want to have a look at
>> that and may be get that to work, that would be great :-)
>
> I will check it out.

The correct (and since the last upload working, see bug #512589 [1])
tool to configure U-Boot is the uboot-envtools package.  This should
assure that we do not have any corruption due to upload process or mtd
reading.  Moreover, since this is the upstream (i.e. U-Boot authors)
tool, we can complain to them.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/512589

ATM, we provide two different hand-made tools:

- configure-uboot.sh
    
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/files.git;a=blob;f=configure-uboot.sh;h=393837cf5e4e47053212abacce2ba7d876a3125b;hb=HEAD

  This is a stand-alone version of the shell script included in
  install.sh and the reasons for it are explained at
    
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-standards/2008-August/000262.html

- uboot-envedit (package fso-utils)
    
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/fso-utils.git;a=blob;f=uboot-envedit;h=78b55fe82502b46aebbd7b400451d36336e957b1;hb=HEAD

  I do not know why Openmoko decided to not use upstream tool, but I am
  for removing it from the Debian fso-utils package, adding a note in
  NEWS.Debian or README.Debian.  This not only because it is a hack at
  least I have never tested, but also because since Openmoko abandoned
  U-Boot, I am not sure anyone between them is still using it.

We should convert install.sh to use the uboot-envtools package, but I do
not think it is worth it, since AFAIK no one reported any U-Boot
corruption in the last months.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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