From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:17:16 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] RFC: New U-boot image format In-Reply-To: <20071218161250.0F31D248AC@gemini.denx.de> References: <20071218161250.0F31D248AC@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <4767F28C.3030304@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Wolfgang Denk wrote: > NAK. Using an envuironment variable is definitely not a good idea, > and probably not sufficient. Assume the situation where you have > "autostart" set to "yes" and use DHCP to download and start the > image, or where you use "tftp" followed by a "bootm" command to do > the same. In both cases there is no direct "hook" to do what you ask > for - ther eis no sane place where the envrionment variable would be > set (in the network code?) nor where it would be taken into account. If I have a plug-in for QE firmware blobs, couldn't the plug-in code just set the environment variable anyway? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale