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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
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Subject: Re: how does barebox deal with more than one environment?
To: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> On 1 December 2012 17:19, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> See common/startup.c:110
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_ENV_HANDLING
> if (envfs_load(default_environment_path, "/env")) {
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT
> printf("no valid environment found on %s. "
> "Using default environment\n",
> default_environment_path);
> envfs_load("/dev/defaultenv", "/env");
> #endif
>
> By default default_environment_path="/dev/env0", but it can be
> overwritten in a board code (e.g. see arch/arm/boards/panda/board.c).
i realize that -- what i was asking about were the possible
*additional* environments (/dev/env1, /dev/env2, ...) that are
mentioned on that page.
rday
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