[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/3] add file with a default boot environment based heavily on Stephen Warrens recent tegra work.

Tom Rini
2014-02-19T19:43:13Z

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 01:37:24PM -0600, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Stephen
>
> On 02/19/2014 01:29 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > On 02/19/2014 12:24 PM, Dan Murphy wrote:
> > ...
> >> Do we have a directory where default scripts exist for each board? Or at least samples for each board?
> >>
> >> I could not find them. If they don't exist then we should probably put them in the board dirs and cp them to the respective out directory
> >>
> >> Maybe this would be something that helps defined the known good config that the community can base their changes on.
> > For Tegra, I have created:
> >
> > https://github.com/NVIDIA/tegra-uboot-scripts
> >
> > I imagine those scripts would work on most boards that use the U-Boot
> > config in this patch series. I've certainly used almost identical
> > scripts on the Raspberry Pi.
> >
> > I should perhaps put an example extlinux.conf into that repo too.
> >
> > I imagine (well, it's pretty much the whole point) that distro
> > installers (e.g. Anaconda) will soon (or already do) support spitting
> > out extlinux.conf that'll work on ARM U-Boot too.
>
> That's nice! Real time script building if you can find the repo you pointed to.
>
> But I was looking for something that was in tree though as a default. Then maybe overridden by a board uEnv.txt file.
>
> Just something that can be used to get a basic boot from whatever the board manufacturer wants to make their default
> storage.

Yes, for the next go-round we need examples too perhaps, either directly
or at least mentioned in board/.../README

--
Tom
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