[U-Boot-Users] tool to create environment on host?

[Simon Poole <simon.armlinux@themalago.net>]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <4294507C.1050104@themalago.net> you wrote:
> 
>>>>is there a tool to create a binary environment block from a text file on the 
>>>>host?
> 
> ...
> 
>>That would be *so* useful for our nightly builds...
> 
> 
> Why so? If correctly configured, the environment is  built  automati-
> cally with the U-Boot image anyway.
> 

Our nightly build produces the full u-boot, kernel, rootfs for our 
products and wraps it up into a nice single firmware image ready for 
flashing onto the boards.

The environment for a single board may vary slightly depending on the 
product it is going into (e.g. different mtdparts kernel bootarg).  Our 
current procedure is to run u-boot on the board, setup the environment 
correctly, save a binary image of it and put that in the nightly build. 
  Steven's idea means we can keep the environment in 'source' format and 
build the binary on the fly.

I might have missed a trick though if this can be done as part of the 
normal u-boot build?

Simon.
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Simon Poole
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