On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 06:22:09PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > On 08/10/2014 11:00 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > > Hello, > > > > in the following email you can find a patch to populate the > > default environment for sunxi-based systems about which I would > > apprechiate your opinion. > > > > With the current progress in mainlining sunxi platform support, > > mainline u-boot will probably soon be able to replace > > u-boot-sunxi (https://github.com/linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi) for > > many use cases. Currently the default environment in mainline > > u-boot for sunxi-based systems is rather bare; the only > > predefined variable is bootm_size (which is required for proper > > initrd- and dtb-relocation). U-boot-sunxi predefines a set of > > environment variables which are commonly used by existing boot > > scripts and also offers a predefined bootcmd for automatic search > > and execution of bootscripts. I think that to facilitate using > > mainline u-boot as a drop-in replacement for u-boot-sunxi, > > mainline u-boot should provide similar defaults.
[...] > Thanks for this patch, but this does the same as a series > I've already pending, see: > > https://github.com/jwrdegoede/u-boot-sunxi/commits/next Sorry, I had not seen that - in this case please disregard my patch. > I've not yet send a pull-request for this because it uses the new > generic $bootcmd support: > https://github.com/jwrdegoede/u-boot-sunxi/commit/34e421a155c83c52f6e6edb2594458af27ef7517 > > This commit has just been merged by Tom Rini, so right now > these patches are good to go. I'll send a pull-request for them > soon. > > Let me know if somehow these patches won't work for Debian. One of the > goals of the generic $bootcmd support is that distributions can just > drop an extlinux.conf in the boot partition, and then u-boot will > automatically find it and do the right thing. I have just run a few short tests with them - looks good. Using the new infrastructure requires adjustments to existing bootscripts written for u-boot-sunxi due to different variable names (${devtype} vs. ${device}, ${devnum}:${bootpart} vs. ${partition}), so it is not a real drop-in replacement for u-boot-sunxi, but if it gets adopted by all platforms, I think having a common and versatile infrastructure for all of them is worth breaking compatibility to u-boot-sunxi in this regard. Regards, Karsten -- Gem. Par. 28 Abs. 4 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz widerspreche ich der Nutzung sowie der Weitergabe meiner personenbezogenen Daten für Zwecke der Werbung sowie der Markt- oder Meinungsforschung. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
