From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:37:51 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] wandboard: add pxe support, set default boot command like highbank In-Reply-To: References: <1374786812-32303-1-git-send-email-dgilmore@fedoraproject.org> <51FA221D.5090006@denx.de> <51FA9891.9040000@gmail.com> <51FB786E.4010908@denx.de> <20130805052933.59F9B380495@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <20130806113751.957DA380DF0@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Rob Herring, In message you wrote: > > > Why would you ever want to compile this into U-Boot at all? Then any > > changes you need to make mean compiling and installing a new U-Boot, > > which is something you normally don't want to do. > > You may want to have factory default and "user" settings. Building in > the factory settings would be one way to accomplish that. No. Handling these independently, outside of the compiled U-Boot image is as easy, and much more flexible. > > U-Boot is perfectly able to import such settings from text files (or > > text blobs stored somewhere, even attached to the U-Boot image, if you > > want), so just use the text files separately, instead of hard > > compiling them into the code. > > In my case, I don't want to compile the environment into u-boot. But > some people do as I copied my scripts from Tegra which has them > built-in. Since built-in is C and standalone is text file, sharing is > impossible. That is the main thing I'd like to see changed. Whether we > support merging builtin and standalone envs is secondary. Who says "impossible" here? When using a file system with write support, you can use "env export -t" to create a text representation and write it out to the file system (or store it in some reserved area on some storage device). Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de A good marriage would be between a blind wife and deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne