[U-Boot-Users] Updating u-boot environment

[Muhammad Yahya <Muhammad.Yahya@Sun.COM>]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

>In message <41F6D3AA.3070800@sun.com> you wrote:
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>>Thank you for your response. I need to provide an interface to the folks 
>>at our manufacturing facility so that they can enter the MAC address for 
>>the MPC embedded controller and I can write it to the u-boot 
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>U-Boot has such an interface builtin. It is the "setenv" command.  It
>is  trivial  to write script (for example using "expect") to automate
>such command sequences.
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>And I already mentioned several other potential solutions for such  a
>task.
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>>enviroment.  Is is possible to write a "script" that can take user input 
>>and then write the MAC address ? I cannot seem to find a u-boot command 
>>that can take input from the user.
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>Did you read my previous message? I wrote:
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>>"setenv"  command  is a builtin. Youc an put calls to the "setenv" or
>>"askenv" in a text file (= shell script), use the  mkimage  tool  (-T
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>Did you look up what the "setenv" and "askenv" are doing?  Especially
>"askenv"??
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Unfrotunately, I cannot find askenv in the u-boot version I am using; 
that is why I was asking if there is analternative  to get input from user.

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>Best regards,
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>Wolfgang Denk
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