On Monday 06 April 2009 06:28:33 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
In message Mike Frysinger wrote:
...which seems to be an acceptable (to both sides) compromise to me.
minus support for embedding the environment into the image ... i have a patch that adds an option to tools/envcrc to export the environment as a binary blob so that it can be passed to the external utility, but you wouldnt take it because you wanted me to fix my hardware instead ;).
Not true. I can see that such a tool makes sense - it can be always usefult if you want to pre-initialize the environment on boards where the environment sector(s) is not embedded with the U-Boot image itself.
Just post your code :-)
ok, extracting the env as a blob isnt problematic, it's the addition of "ENV_IS_EMBEDDED_CUSTOM". the env is embedded in the final image that gets burned into flash, but not by u-boot. the external util takes cares of combining the u-boot ELF and the environment blob.
but i guess i can split the patch into (1) add --binary to tools/envcrc and (2) add ENV_IS_EMBEDDED_CUSTOM. that way when (2) gets shot down again, at least (1) was added so it's one less thing for me to maintain out of tree. -mike