From: Boaz Ben-David <boaz.bd@wellsense-tech.com>
To: "baruch@tkos.co.il" <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: Udi Ron <udi.ron@wellsense-tech.com>,
Itai Raab <itai.raab@wellsense-tech.com>,
"barebox@lists.infradead.org" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Fallback environment in barebox
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:08:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39A4B204C321D34DA3490E3B119D5A6C68C006F898@SBS2008.wellsense.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110228055040.GC2667@jasper.tkos.co.il>
Great, thanks!
Boaz.
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 07:50 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Boaz,
>
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:09:59PM +0200, Boaz Ben-David wrote:
> > Sounds great.
> >
> > Is there any documentation on how to "register" environments?
>
> What Juergen meant to say is "register partitions named env0, env1, ...". The
> barebox startup code then automatically picks the first valid environment
> partition.
>
> To register partitions (with bad blocks awareness) use devfs_add_partition()
> and then dev_add_bb_dev(). grep for "env0" under arch/ for many examples.
>
> baruch
>
> > 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, .....
>
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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
2011-02-28 5:50 ` Baruch Siach
2011-02-28 8:08 ` Boaz Ben-David [this message]
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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