[U-Boot] U-Boot 2015 and u-boot-fw-utils 2017.09

[Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>]

Hi Joakim,

> On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > In message <20180111100422.7957c7f3@jawa> you wrote:  
> > >   
> > > > I am using U-Boot 2015.04, and the new root file system for my
> > > > platform includes u-boot-fw-utils 2017.09. I have noticed that
> > > > fw_{print,set}env utilities are no longer working.  
> > > 
> > > Strace output would be helpful here....  
> > 
> > Definitely.  Ideally both for the old, working, and for the new,
> > failing, version.
> >   
> > > The fw_* utils were a bit reworked around 2017.09 (there were some
> > > build breaks of it IIRC), so yes you may see some problems.  
> > 
> > But then, the actual format of the environment data has never been
> > changed, so we really need more details.  
> 
> Speaking of the fw tools, I have always wanted to be able to specify
> "whole mtd device" for plain NOR flash in fw_env.config so instead of 
>  /dev/mtd1		0x0000		0x4000
> 0x4000 One could jsut say 
>  /dev/mtd1		0x0000		0x4000
> like one can do for SPI flash. Thoughts ?
> 

Apparently you are the first one, who see such functionality as useful.

I don't mind - feel free to prepare patches :-)

>  Jocke
>  


Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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