On Wednesday 08 August 2012 16:25:51 Rob Herring wrote:
Stephen Warren <swarren@...> writes:
Related to this topic also are:
93d87d5 tegra: define fdt_load/fdt_high variables 4878343 tegra: bootcmd enhancements
I do like this and it's similar to what I've done for highbank. Actually, yours is a bit more flexible. We have the additional need to select a boot source by a boot device selection register which is set via ipmi.
So how do we combine these and have some level of enforcement? There's not much concept of common/minimum environment in u-boot. The default environment is entirely optional. I worry leaving it as just environment settings does not "encourage" people to use it.
we can document a "standard" in u-boot itself that for linux distros, and encourage board porters to follow that
you're right that we can't force people to do this, but simply documenting it in u-boot and making it the suggested default goes a long way i think -mike