[U-Boot] [PATCH] env: Setup GD_FLG_ENV_DEFAULT flag when default environment are used

[Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>]

On 1.6.2016 16:16, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 
> On 31.05.16 09:40, Michal Simek wrote:
>> On 31.5.2016 08:39, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>
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>>>> Am 31.05.2016 um 07:04 schrieb Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> On 30.5.2016 21:36, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 05/30/2016 04:11 PM, Michal Simek wrote:
>>>>>> Setup flag when default environment are used to be able to
>>>>>> rewrite default distro boot variables based on SoC boot mode.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I didn't find any way how to detect that default or saved variables are
>>>>>> used. I want to have a flag to be able to rewrite boot_targets variable
>>>>>> based on boot mode. Especially when SD boot mode is setup than SD should
>>>>>> be primary boot devices, etc.
>>>>>> When variables are saved boot_targets will be restored and SoC boot mode
>>>>>> will be ignored.
>>>>>> If you know better way how to do it, please let me know.
>>>>>
>>>>> You may want to be able to do the same from inside a script, so I guess
>>>>> we should better have this as an environment variable itself again.
>>>>
>>>> Was there any environment in past?
>>>
>>> With again I meant "from C as well as from script".
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There was a way to have environment variable reads return a value
>>>>> directly from code rather than go via environment storage. I guess we
>>>>> could expose the flag through that?
>>>>
>>>> If you expose environment variable and then run saveenv this variable
>>>> will be saved and restored again and your script behaves the same.
>>>
>>> Not if we declare the environment variable read as callback ;).
>>
>> What do you mean?
> 
> Meh, apparently I misremembered.
> 
>> It is kind of interesting that this is not done already for others SoCs
>> when you want to use distro config. :-)
> 
> Well, there's always a first :).
> 
> Either way, I guess your patch is perfectly fine as a first step. It
> would be nice to also introduce some way for scripts to evaluate whether
> the environment is the default environment, but we can always add that
> later.

Does this mean your Acked-by line?

Cheers,
Michal