Hi,
moving to latest U-Boot introduces some issues with the environment.
Setup: - PowerPC based boards (52xx / 83xx) - Environments are in flash with redundancy
Dumping flash the environments with dd and using hexdump shows :
- crc32 - flags Data (first entry beginning with 'a'). 0000000: b0ea 7858 0100 64... 0000010: ...
Regarding to include/environment.h data is "unsigned char" as well as data[]. To me it looks like 2-byte wide flags (or 16-bit alignment of data) is wrong.
Although env modification within u-boot only is safe it breakother tools modifying the environment within e.g. Linux.
This happened somewhere between v2010.9 and current master. Back then U-Boot env data started on byte 5.
Do we need an attribute(packed) on the env struct ?
Any help is welcome.
Regards, André
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