Dear Kim Phillips,
In message 20110926112756.bb93d41b.kim.phillips@freescale.com you wrote:
Instead of extending buffer sizes just to be able to enter some incomrephensible looooong variable setting you should try and figure
this variable (which I have been comprehending for years now), is part of the default environment configuration for that board, and many others - it's defined in the board config file.
Yes, I perfectly understand this.
However, this is not exactly a good reson not to fix (or atl east improve) that code.
We need to enable reverting an env var to its original default definition.
Do we? We have not had that feature for over a decade and nobody ever really suffered from it. Now we have "env -f reset" for almost a year, and guess how many percent of the users even know about this command? And how many have ever actually used it yet?
Perhaps over time the nfsboot norm setting should be migrated to something more modular in the board config files, but right now, users are complaining about simply expecting to being able to type two more characters on the command line.
Then educate your users that a boot loader is a resource restricted environment, and that there at least 10 different ways to do what they want, at least 8 of them resulting in a much simpler and easier to comprehend environment setup.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk