From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:58:39 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] recommended place to add some custom settings to u-boot environment? In-Reply-To: References: <20160914091718.73124100BD9@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: <20160914125839.C998A100BA3@atlas.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Robert, In message you wrote: > > > Why not simply putting this as text (or wrapped with an uImage > > header) into some storage (or even a file) and then use "env import" > > to load it? > > the problem is that that additional "environment" info is on the > target board because of a legacy non-linux OS -- it's at a well-known > address in flash, and we have no freedom to change it, we can only > read it, make some adjustments, then incorporate it into the current > environment. Which format is used? Can it not be made to work with "env import" using this well-known address? I mean, if it's plain text, it should just work. If it's some other, more exotic format, you could probably implement a custom import format? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- and it's lon- ger than any hour. That's relativity. -- Albert Einstein