From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:04:39 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] uboot: support -p option for mkenvimage In-Reply-To: References: <1381399545-30713-1-git-send-email-spdawson@gmail.com> <20131010170658.68908aae@skate> Message-ID: <20131011100439.2f743226@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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