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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Domen Puncer <domen.puncer@ultra.si>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: u-boot problem: Au1xx0: fix prom_getenv() to handle YAMON style environment
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:35:31 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <449C2663.4060501@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <449C1DA8.9090800@ru.mvista.com>

Hello, I wrote:

>> I need to revert $SUBJECT patch for kernel to boot on au1200,
>> u-boot 1.1.3.

>> And I could swear it worked booted yesterday without reverting (??)

>    Hm, it sort of worked with YAMON before that patch (just not quite 
> correctly) due to the fact the name strings seem to be followed by the 
> value strings (just not '='but '\0' being between them). But obviously, 
> the variable values could be taken for the names the way it was written. 
> If the purpose was to support both YAMON and U-Boot, that should've been 
> marked in the comments I think...

>> Could we support yamon and u-boot style environment?

>    Is there a way to distinguish them?

   Well, I think some adaptive alogrithm using strchr(env, '=') should be 
possible...

>>     Domen

WBR, Sergei

      reply	other threads:[~2006-06-23 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-23  8:23 u-boot problem: Au1xx0: fix prom_getenv() to handle YAMON style environment Domen Puncer
2006-06-23 16:58 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-06-23 17:35   ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]

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