From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] uboot: support -p option for mkenvimage
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:04:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131011100439.2f743226@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHt8ZCNgAtSnbHZGv21Qw=OZZvBWUHRztOsFNNLAOHYfxu32Tw@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Simon Dawson,
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 08:47:20 +0100, Simon Dawson wrote:
> I have been using a crappy script to generate a u-boot environment
> image, and that script was padding with 0x00 bytes instead of 0xff
> (which is the default used by the mkenvimage tool). Having looked into
> this a bit more, it appears that the 0xff padding works just fine in
> my particular use case.
>
> So, I no longer consider this patch necessary, and cannot provide a
> justification for it.
Ok.
> I have, however, found that I need to pass the -r (redundant
> environment) flag to mkenvimage; so I propose exposing that flag in
> the Buildroot menu.
Right, -r is needed for some U-Boot configurations, so having a config
knob for it makes sense.
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-10 10:05 [Buildroot] [PATCH] uboot: support -p option for mkenvimage spdawson at gmail.com
2013-10-10 15:06 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-11 7:47 ` Simon Dawson
2013-10-11 8:04 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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