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From: Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>
To: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sandbox: ship sample environment
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 22:06:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210703200658.GY9782@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210629063730.7001-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 08:37:30AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> The idea of the stickypage was to have a 4K memory region persistent
> over resets. This region was implemented as mmap of a temporary hostfile,
> which was created on first barebox start and maintained over resets.
> 
> Usability was a bit lacking however:
>   - The temporary files weren't deleted
>   - state always showed warnings and errors on first boot. The banner
>     telling users to ignore this wasn't best user experience
>   - In the same vein, the power driver had logic to handle a fresh
>     (zeroed) stickypage and interpret that as POR boot
> 
> We can avoid all that, by just shipping a default stickypage and
> referencing that from DT. Do that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
>   - compile stickypage at build time instead of shipping it in binary
>     form. Sascha reports issues with binary patche handling outside git.
> ---

Applied, thanks

Sascha

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2021-06-29  6:37 Ahmad Fatoum
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