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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] LIBFDT: bd_t and env embedding (was actual stxxtc board maintainer?)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:02:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071127220257.3532E24075@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:50:55 EST." <474C12AF.4000905@ge.com>

In message <474C12AF.4000905@ge.com> you wrote:

[Full quote deleted. Link to "How do I quote correctly in Usenet?"
suppressed.]

> I'm just having a hard time letting go of my dream of FDT world 
> domination, starting with using a blob to hold the u-boot env variables. :-)

We will feed your dreams.

Please be prepared to review and comment on the new image format
postings I expect to sees really soon now...

> If we ever /do/ have an option to store env variables in a blob, we 
> won't need to have (the current) extra code to jam the non-FDT env 
> variables into the blob anyway.  ;-)

Why would you want to store environment variables in a FDT blob?

In nearly all cases  they  serve  pretty  much  completely  different
purposes, and they can be accessed through different methods.

> I don't have any problem removing both the bd_t *and* the env embedding 
> "features" since the former is evil and the latter is unused.

Then we at least agreee on that :-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-27 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-26 16:58 [U-Boot-Users] actual stxxtc board maintainer? Kumar Gala
2007-11-26 18:00 ` Dan Malek
2007-11-26 18:23   ` Kumar Gala
2007-11-26 18:47     ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-11-26 22:25       ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-11-27 12:50         ` [U-Boot-Users] LIBFDT: bd_t and env embedding (was actual stxxtc board maintainer?) Jerry Van Baren
2007-11-27 22:02           ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]

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