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From: Boaz Ben-David <boaz.bd@wellsense-tech.com>
To: "jbe@pengutronix.de" <jbe@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "barebox@lists.infradead.org" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>,
	Itai Raab <itai.raab@wellsense-tech.com>
Subject: Re: Fallback environment in barebox
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:09:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39A4B204C321D34DA3490E3B119D5A6C68C006F894@SBS2008.wellsense.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102271050.48537.jbe@pengutronix.de>

Sounds great.

Is there any documentation on how to "register" environments?

Thanks,

Boaz.

On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 10:50 +0100, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> Boaz Ben-David wrote:
> > We want to implement a mechanism in barebox to use two environment
> > partitions.
> > i.e. when barebox boots it will go to the first by default and try to
> > use it. If for some reason it fails
> > it will boot with the second one.
> >
> > What is the best way to implement this in barebox and did anyone do it
> > already?
> 
> AFAIR a mechanism like this is already present in barebox. It tries the first 
> environment, checks its CRC and if it fails it tries the next, if one exists.
> Just register env0, env1, .....
> 
> Regards,
> Juergen
> 
> -- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-27 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-27  6:19 Boaz Ben-David
2011-02-27  9:50 ` Juergen Beisert
2011-02-27 10:09   ` Boaz Ben-David [this message]
2011-02-28  5:50     ` Baruch Siach
2011-02-28  8:08       ` Boaz Ben-David
2011-03-06 14:59       ` Itai Raab
2011-03-06 18:26         ` Baruch Siach
2011-03-08 15:37           ` Juergen Beisert
2011-03-09 11:00             ` Juergen Beisert
2011-03-27  8:58               ` Boaz Ben-David
2011-04-08  7:03                 ` Sascha Hauer

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