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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: how does barebox deal with more than one environment?
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 09:07:53 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1212010906080.13744@oneiric> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA4bVAHj_Q12r087kYOvwXj+9vRb1cFANa7nMUKTQzH+qmmEAw@mail.gmail.com>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-01 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-01 13:12 Robert P. J. Day
2012-12-01 13:19 ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-12-01 13:46   ` Antony Pavlov
2012-12-01 14:07     ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2012-12-03  9:04   ` Sascha Hauer
2012-12-03 12:48     ` Robert P. J. Day

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