From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nishanth Menon Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:39:38 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] omap5: Allow use of a plain text env file In-Reply-To: <514E7F22.9020805@ti.com> References: <1363992223-1628-1-git-send-email-nm@ti.com> <514CFF74.2040208@ti.com> <514DC9E3.7000504@gmail.com> <514E7F22.9020805@ti.com> Message-ID: <514FB8EA.4080602@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 03/23/2013 11:20 PM, Sricharan R wrote: > Hi Nishanth, > > On Saturday 23 March 2013 08:57 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote: >> On 03/22/2013 08:03 PM, Tom Rini wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 03/22/2013 06:43 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote: >>>> For production systems it is better to use script images since they >>>> are protected by checksums and carry valuable information like name >>>> and timestamp. Also, you can't validate the content passed to env >>>> import. >>>> >>>> But for development, it is easier to use the env import command >>>> and plain text files instead of script-images. >>>> >>>> Since both OMAP5evm/uevm boards are used primarily for >>>> development, we allow U-Boot to load env var from a text file in >>>> case that an boot.scr script-image is not present. >>>> >>>> The variable uenvcmd (if existent) will be executed (using run) >>>> after uEnv.txt was loaded. If uenvcmd doesn't exist the default >>>> boot sequence will be started. >>>> >>>> Inspired by commit: d70f54808dfa83b574e1239c3eccbcf3317343e1 >>>> (omap4: allow the use of a plain text env file instead boot >>>> scripts) >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon >>> >>> OK, Sricharan is also working on something like this, with a few other >>> changes as well (Use zImage, load fdt). I suspect we'll be taking >>> that in. >> is there a patch posted in u-boot list? or at least an ETA when we might be able to see such a patch? >> Regards, >> Nishanth Menon >> > I added this in the series. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg109030.html thanks. Regards, Nishanth Menon