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From: "Premi, Sanjeev" <premi@ti.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "barebox@lists.infradead.org" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC] omap3evm: Set preliminary environment
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:16:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E28AAFD00EFAA646AE3DF9B89CD24A89318431A3@DBDE01.ent.ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120210122343.GI3852@pengutronix.de>

> -----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?

~sanjev

> 
> Sascha
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-13 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09 18:24 Sanjeev Premi
2012-02-10 12:23 ` Sascha Hauer
2012-02-13 10:16   ` Premi, Sanjeev [this message]
2012-02-14 11:11     ` Sascha Hauer

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