[U-Boot] [RFC] try to merge different i.MX environment

Tom Rini
2014-02-18T17:11:49Z

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:57:43PM +0100, Stefano Babic wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
>
> On 14/02/2014 17:14, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:06:55 +0100
> > Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Signed-off-by: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
> >> CC: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
> >> CC: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
> >> CC: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> >> CC: Leo Sartre <lsartre@adeneo-embedded.com>
> >> CC: Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton@gmail.com>
> >> CC: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
> >> CC: b18965 at freescale.com
> >>
> >> Hi everybody,
> >>
> >> the current built-in environment in most i.MX boards is very similar.
> >> Even if I always thought that the default environemt is something
> >> that the user want always customize, I see from all you submitters
> >> the not hidden desire to have such a common default environment for
> >> all boards. At least, for i.MX boards.
> >> Checking in the board configuration files, I see at least the
> >> following boards that hase "quite" the same built-in environment:
> >>
> >
> > I'm working on building a common set environment based on the work by
> > Stephen Warren for tegra, that would provide for a very usable
> > experience.
> >
> > Its the next step forward from the distro config options. Id rather us
> > get a solution that works across the board than something different per
> > soc family.
>
> Fully agree. I will check again tegra-common-post.h. As far as I have
> understood, the built-in environment for Tegra sets a minimal set of
> rules and scripts that allow to load a full environment from another
> script stored on a media (mmc or usb). This is also a good statement,
> because the environment is not so fine defined and let easy customization.

Dan has adapted the tegra form to work with the TI boards that use
ti_armv7_common.h and similar so I think we should be able to get i.MX
also using something similar.

--
Tom
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