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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: how does barebox deal with more than one environment?
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 08:19:26 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1212010818090.13158@oneiric> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1212010809040.13064@oneiric>

On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   writing up a simple barebox exercise for students and on this page:
>
> http://wiki.barebox.org/doku.php?id=user:first_steps
>
> it seems clear(?) that you can define multiple environments that will
> appear at /dev/env0, /dev/env1, etc, but that page also claims that
> *only* the configuration on /dev/env0 will be executed automatically
> if barebox finds that it's a valid configuration sector.
>
>   so what happens with the additional environments?  that page doesn't
> make it clear.  i'm just about to read the source to see if i can
> figure this out.

  oh, wait, i think i see ... the "loadenv" command will load a given
environment into a directory so i'm *assuming* that additional
environments are simply available to be loaded, but /dev/env0 is the
only one treated special.  or feel free to correct me if i'm
hopelessly wrong.

rday

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-01 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-01 13:12 Robert P. J. Day
2012-12-01 13:19 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2012-12-01 13:46   ` Antony Pavlov
2012-12-01 14:07     ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-12-03  9:04   ` Sascha Hauer
2012-12-03 12:48     ` Robert P. J. Day

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