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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/14] armlinux: cleanup linux vars
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:09:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111129100940.GH27267@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111129081354.GT15008@game.jcrosoft.org>

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:13:54AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 08:23 Tue 29 Nov     , Robert Schwebel wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 05:38:29AM +0100, Jean-Christophe
> > PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > > > I'm using it so please do not remove the old arch_number
> > > >
> > > > I'm not removing it, just changing the name. Can't you update the
> > > > name in your environment?
> > >
> > > no :(
> > 
> > Huh? You are able to exchange your bootloader against a new one, but you
> > are not able to exchange your environment as well? Can you explain that
> > a bit more detailed?
> 
> env in otp
> 
> contain box uniq info that can not be changed after prod

You can still set a compatibility variable in your board specific code.

Besides, with putting the environment in otp you also say that
We can't change the behaviour of commands at all because you programmed
this into your hardware. Do you really want that we are doomed with
what we have now forever? No, please not.

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-29 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-28  8:02 bootm work Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 01/14] bootm: remove dead code Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 02/14] factor out iminfo command Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 03/14] compile in simple_strtoull Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 04/14] introduce some env helpers Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 05/14] armlinux: cleanup linux vars Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28 11:03   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-11-28 11:12     ` Sascha Hauer
2011-11-29  4:38       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-11-29  7:23         ` Robert Schwebel
2011-11-29  8:13           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-11-29 10:09             ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 06/14] ARM bootm: remove now obsolete args Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 07/14] bootm: handle initrds inline Sascha Hauer
2011-12-06 15:08   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-12-07  9:19     ` Sascha Hauer
2011-12-07 13:26       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 08/14] bootm: remove image handler options Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 09/14] bootm: fix various memory leaks Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 10/14] bootm: do not require -L after -r Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 11/14] bootm: fix typo, update help str Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28 11:00   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 12/14] bootm relocate_image: honour load_address Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 13/14] bootm: push relocate_image up to the generic command Sascha Hauer
2011-11-28  8:02 ` [PATCH 14/14] bootm: use initrd_address and initrd_size Sascha Hauer

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