[U-Boot] [PATCH] Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

[Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 02:32:00PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> > Dear Simon Glass,
> >
> > In message <1366155414-6525-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> you wrote:
> >> At present U-Boot environment variables, and thus scripts, are defined
> >> by CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS. It is painful to add large amounts of text
> >> to this file and dealing with quoting and newlines is harder than it
> >> should be. It would be better if we could just type the script into a
> >> text file and have it included by U-Boot.
> >>
> >> Add a feature that brings in a .env file associated with the board
> >> config, if present. To use it, create a file in include/configs
> >> with the same name as you could board config file, except with a
> >> .env extension instead of a .h extension. The variables should be
> >> separated by \0. Comments are permitted, using # as the first character
> >> in a line.
> >
> > Please do not litter the include/configs/ directory with such stuff.
> > It's more than big enough already.  Please put such files into the
> > respective board directories.
> 
> OK.
> 
> >
> > And if you do something like this, then please go the way to the end.
> > Forget about the \0 termination, make it a plain text file instead,
> > something that can be used with "env import -t" as well (or created
> > with "env export -t").
> 
> I'm not sure how to do this. Doesn't this mean that we cannot add
> multi-line scripts to the environment? That was part of my aim. But if
> I put a 0x0a in the script then it will think we are starting a new
> variable.

The first thing that pops to mind is:
1) embedded the text file into a linker-known spot
2) Make part of the default env setup process be to env import -t that
location in memory.

-- 
Tom
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