[U-Boot-Users] Proposal for patch to configure network parameters

[Ulf Samuelsson <ulf@atmel.com>]

U-Boot has  a number of network parameters like

CONFIG_HOSTNAME
CONFIG_IPADDR
CONFIG_GATEWAYIP
CONFIG_NETMASK
etc.

While these can be defined in an "include/configs/<board>.h",
it would be nice to be able to define this in a separate file
since they are really not board specific.
They are more dependent on the network where the machine is built.

Such a file  I.E: "include/custom.h",  would get included by
the automatically generated "config.h", after the board specific file
is included, to allow it to override any values.

In the normal distribution, this file would be empty so it will not affect
any current boards.

This would allow you to automatically analyse your machine
to find out your host ipaddress, and add an appropriate
ipaddr, netmask, gatewayip etc and overwrite the file with a custom
default network configuration before you build.

There may be other things which you want to set depending
on your host environment.

In short patches would be something similar to:

+++include/custom.h
+ #

+++mkconfig
   echo "#include <configs/$1.h>" >>config.h
+ echo "#include <custom.h>" >>config.h
   exit 0

If the idea seems acceptable, I will go ahead and generate the real patches.

Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson