From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] RFC: New U-boot image format
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:17:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4767F28C.3030304@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071218161250.0F31D248AC@gemini.denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> NAK. Using an envuironment variable is definitely not a good idea,
> and probably not sufficient. Assume the situation where you have
> "autostart" set to "yes" and use DHCP to download and start the
> image, or where you use "tftp" followed by a "bootm" command to do
> the same. In both cases there is no direct "hook" to do what you ask
> for - ther eis no sane place where the envrionment variable would be
> set (in the network code?) nor where it would be taken into account.
If I have a plug-in for QE firmware blobs, couldn't the plug-in code just set
the environment variable anyway?
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-18 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-11 16:18 [U-Boot-Users] RFC: New U-boot image format Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-11 16:32 ` [U-Boot-Users] RFC: New U-boot image format - open issues Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-11 19:23 ` [U-Boot-Users] RFC: New U-boot image format Jerry Van Baren
2007-12-11 22:23 ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-12 12:38 ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-12-13 22:59 ` Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-13 22:41 ` Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-14 6:17 ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-14 21:44 ` T Ziomek
2007-12-19 14:26 ` Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-20 0:50 ` David Gibson
2007-12-20 16:41 ` Scott Wood
2007-12-20 22:25 ` Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-20 22:39 ` Scott Wood
2007-12-21 0:17 ` David Gibson
2007-12-18 15:17 ` Timur Tabi
2007-12-18 15:33 ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-12-18 15:36 ` Timur Tabi
2007-12-18 16:12 ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-18 16:17 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2007-12-18 19:42 ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-18 19:47 ` Timur Tabi
2007-12-18 20:11 ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-18 20:18 ` Timur Tabi
2007-12-19 14:07 ` Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-20 19:42 ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-21 15:04 ` Marian Balakowicz
2007-12-21 15:17 ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-12-21 15:39 ` Marian Balakowicz
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