Le 19/08/2015 05:14, Stephen Warren a écrit :
On 08/18/2015 08:03 AM, Guillaume GARDET wrote:
Add CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG support to set 'board_rev' and
'board_name' envs.
That states what the patch does rather than why its useful to do it. Can
you expand on why it's useful to set these variables?

Using boot scripts you may need to get the board version / revision infos, for 
example to select the right DTB since u-boot DTB names and kernel DTB files do 
not match.


diff --git a/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c b/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c
@@ -240,6 +240,12 @@ int misc_init_r(void)
  {
        set_fdtfile();
        set_usbethaddr();
+#ifdef CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG
+       char str_rev[11];
+       sprintf(str_rev, "0x%X", rpi_board_rev);
+       setenv("board_rev", str_rev);
+       setenv("board_name", models[rpi_board_rev].name);
+#endif
        return 0;
  }
That adds a variable declaration in the middle of code. I'd suggest
moving the new code into set_board_info() (a name that some other
boards/SoCs that honor CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG use), and
calling that function inside the ifdef in misc_init_r(). You can always
make the function static and implement it before misc_init_r() so that
the compiler is likely to inline it.

Ok, will do that.


I'm not sure that models[rpi_board_rev].name contains values that are
useful to place into an environment variable. It depends what you expect
to do with that variable. Note that the values are not unique, and
contain spaces, which might make the value hard to use and/or not
reliable to differentiate between all the different types of boards.

Conceptually I have no general objection to this patch, although I am a
little worried about turning the board_name variable into some kind of ABI.


board_name variable should be considered to get a pretty board info print, not 
any kind of ABI. If people need to differentiate boards revs, just use 
board_rev variable.


Guillaume

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