Wolfgang Denk wrote:
In message 4294507C.1050104@themalago.net you wrote:
is there a tool to create a binary environment block from a text file on the host?
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That would be *so* useful for our nightly builds...
Why so? If correctly configured, the environment is built automati- cally with the U-Boot image anyway.
Our nightly build produces the full u-boot, kernel, rootfs for our products and wraps it up into a nice single firmware image ready for flashing onto the boards.
The environment for a single board may vary slightly depending on the product it is going into (e.g. different mtdparts kernel bootarg). Our current procedure is to run u-boot on the board, setup the environment correctly, save a binary image of it and put that in the nightly build. Steven's idea means we can keep the environment in 'source' format and build the binary on the fly.
I might have missed a trick though if this can be done as part of the normal u-boot build?
Simon. -- Simon Poole www.appliancestudio.com