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From: "Andreas Bießmann" <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] fw_env.h: added a few missing defines
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:13:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED8A4E2.8020705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACW_hTZhREc+aEExsn0Cmx+oA38g5EQ10L=8DFi0mbrLTw-0ug@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Frans,

Am 02.12.2011 09:24, schrieb Frans Meulenbroeks:
> 
> 
> 2011/12/1 Andreas Bie?mann <andreas.devel@googlemail.com
> <mailto:andreas.devel@googlemail.com>>
> 
>     Dear Frans Meulenbroeks,
> 
>     Am 01.12.2011 14:30, schrieb Frans Meulenbroeks:
>     > The README file lists 4 defined that were not actually present in
>     the .h
>     > file but that were needed to get things working with settings
>     compiled in.
>     > They are
>     > Added these to the .h file
>     > (the values above are the ones from the README file)
>     >
>     > Signed-off-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com
>     <mailto:fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>>
> 
>     I tend to NAK this.
> 
>     > ---
>     >  tools/env/fw_env.h |    4 ++++
>     >  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>     >
>     > diff --git a/tools/env/fw_env.h b/tools/env/fw_env.h
>     > index 9258c79..2dcb373 100644
>     > --- a/tools/env/fw_env.h
>     > +++ b/tools/env/fw_env.h
>     > @@ -34,8 +34,12 @@
>     >  #define DEVICE2_NAME      "/dev/mtd2"
>     >  #define DEVICE1_OFFSET    0x0000
>     >  #define ENV1_SIZE         0x4000
>     > +#define DEVICE1_ESIZE     0x4000
>     > +#define DEVICE1_ENVSECTORS     2
> 
>     This change will overwrite the settings done by ENV1_SIZE ... and none
>     of the settings match my boards needs ;)
> 
>     I would appreciate you test my patch
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/106972/focus=112948
>     or http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/120372/
> 
>     I guess you could fulfil your requirements with that patch too.
> 
>     best regards
> 
> 
> Hi Andreas, all
> 
> I have no particular preference to your patch, and I am not 100% sure
> about the overwriting of ENV1_ESIZE.
> Actually my understanding is that ENV1_SIZE specifies the size of the
> environment and DEVICE1_ESIZE is the size of a sector (but I may be
> wrong here)

Well, I shortly overflow the code and saw around line 1240 in fw_env.c
the envdevices[0] values set by ENV1_SIZE are overwritten by
DEVICE1_ESIZE. But you are right, ENVx_SIZE is size of environment,
DEVICEx_SIZE is erase-size. Current code assumes erase-size == env-size
with one sector. Beside that fw_printenv requires /etc/fw_env.config by
default.

> What I noticed was that there is a difference with what is specified in
> the tools/env/README file and what is in tools/env/fw_env.h
> 
> For my project I wanted to have the settings into the program and avoid
> the file in /etc, hence I followed the README and bumped into the fact
> that these two were missing. I've added them to make them compliant with
> the README.

We do need compiled in parameters too, but I found it cumbersome to
change the code in repository to have correct parameters for my board.
Cause everyone need to patch the default configuration I found it easy
to provide a generic way to inject a specific configuration.
The http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/120372/ is about three month old
but no one cares. Therefore the pointer to that patch ...

> For my board of course the values were not correct either, so I patched
> these locally, then tested my work and found it to work.
> As it stands this could probably be replaced with your patch; can't test
> that now as we are in the usual end-of-year stress to complete some
> projects.  Yet an alternate solution could be to update the README file.

I guess this would be best.

best regards

Andreas Bie?mann

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-02 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-01 13:30 [U-Boot] [PATCH] fw_env.h: added a few missing defines Frans Meulenbroeks
2011-12-01 15:21 ` Andreas Bießmann
2011-12-02  8:24   ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2011-12-02 10:13     ` Andreas Bießmann [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-01-02 13:47 Frans Meulenbroeks
2012-01-05 15:07 ` Wolfgang Denk

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