From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 14:21:42 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v3, 14/15] sunxi: Transition from the MMC to a FAT-based environment In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20180127192142.GA20149@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 09:17:03PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote: > The current environment has been hardcoded to an offset that starts to be > an issue given the current size of our main U-Boot binary. > > By implementing a custom environment location routine, we can always favor > the FAT-based environment, and fallback to the MMC if we don't find > something in the FAT partition. We also implement the same order when > saving the environment, so that hopefully we can slowly migrate the users > over to FAT-based environment and away from the raw MMC one. > > Eventually, and hopefully before we reach that limit again, we will have > most of our users using that setup, and we'll be able to retire the raw > environment, and gain more room for the U-Boot binary. > > Reviewed-by: Lukasz Majewski > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: