Hi Simon,
On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 at 17:07, SIMON BABY simonkbaby@gmail.com wrote:
Hello , Can I know if I could generate uboot env file in binary format as part of my build process ? Currently it generate as a text file .
There is the tools/mkenvimage program:
mkenvimage [-h] [-r] [-b] [-p <byte>] -s <environment partition size> -o <output> <input file>
This tool takes a key=value input file (same as would a `printenv' show) and generates the corresponding environment image, ready to be flashed.
The input file is in format: key1=value1 key2=value2 ... Empty lines are skipped, and lines with a # in the first column are treated as comments (also skipped). -r : the environment has multiple copies in flash -b : the target is big endian (default is little endian) -p <byte> : fill the image with <byte> bytes instead of 0xff bytes -V : print version information and exit
If the input file is "-", data is read from standard input
You can build with 'make u-boot-initial-env' to get a tool called printinitialenv to run, which emits the environment. Or you can look in include/generated/ to see the env files from the build.
If you would like to send a documentation patch, it could go here:
https://u-boot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/environment.html
(in the source tree this is doc/usage/environment.html)
Regards, Simon