From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Samuelsson Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:32:43 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] RFC: hidden environment variables References: <462CE302.7030302@freescale.com> <1177356492.3904.78.camel@saruman.qstreams.net> Message-ID: <009701c785de$2e8a7bd0$9003960a@atmel.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de > I guess I don't see why anything needs to be hidden. If somebody has > access to the U-boot prompt, they control the board anyway. From my > perspective, it's for expert use only. Anything going to 'the field' as > an end product should have the countdown disabled, booting straight to > OS. Of course, that's the perspective from my point of view. Over the > last few days it's become clear to me that people here have a wide > variety of use cases and expectations regarding U-boot. > Too much information = information overload for many... I really would like to see something much closer to a PC boot screen. where people fill in fields of information, instead of doing setenv... Best Regards Ulf Samuelsson