From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: "Premi, Sanjeev" <premi@ti.com>
Cc: "barebox@lists.infradead.org" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] omap3evm: Set preliminary environment
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:11:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120214111151.GW3852@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E28AAFD00EFAA646AE3DF9B89CD24A89318431A3@DBDE01.ent.ti.com>
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:16:13AM +0000, Premi, Sanjeev wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sascha Hauer [mailto:s.hauer@pengutronix.de]
> > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 5:54 PM
> > To: Premi, Sanjeev
> > Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
> > Subject: Re: [RFC] omap3evm: Set preliminary environment
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:54:28PM +0530, Sanjeev Premi wrote:
> > > This is still work-in-progress, but wanted to
> > > share them early for any feedback.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Premi <premi@ti.com>
> > > ---
> > > I have made offline edits on these scripts before making
> > > this patch. There is a possibility of run-time failure.
> > >
> > > You will also observe many TODOs. Hope to get them sorted
> > > tomorrow - for a patch worthy of applying on the tree.
> >
> > You are rewriting what we already have in form of the generic
> > environment. You shouldn't do this, we've been there before.
> > Before there was the generic environment every board had its
> > own set of environment scripts. This resulted in tons of
> > board specific scripts in slightly different states.
>
> Agree. I didn't want duplication - but was swayed by "FIXME"s
> the barebox/defaultenv and scripts in some of the boards that
> I saw.
>
> It is possible to override selective variables? e.g.
>
> machine=FIXME
> bootargs="console=ttyFIXME,115200"
> kernel_part=disk0.2
>
> Is there an example to refer?
The idea is to just overwrite env/config and keeping the rest from the
default env. There currently is no way to overwrite only single variables.
Sascha
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2012-02-09 18:24 Sanjeev Premi
2012-02-10 12:23 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-02-13 10:16 ` Premi, Sanjeev
2012-02-14 11:11 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
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