On 08/06/2013 05:37 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Rob Herring, > > In message > <CAL_JsqJTg4CVfk0o9hLd4ZVksj+DNEsKLjcv6T7-6F-=br+...@mail.gmail.com> you > wrote: >> >>> Why would you ever want to compile this into U-Boot at all? Then any >>> changes you need to make mean compiling and installing a new U-Boot, >>> which is something you normally don't want to do. >> >> You may want to have factory default and "user" settings. Building in >> the factory settings would be one way to accomplish that. > > No. Handling these independently, outside of the compiled U-Boot image > is as easy, and much more flexible. > >>> U-Boot is perfectly able to import such settings from text files (or >>> text blobs stored somewhere, even attached to the U-Boot image, if you >>> want), so just use the text files separately, instead of hard >>> compiling them into the code. >> >> In my case, I don't want to compile the environment into u-boot. But >> some people do as I copied my scripts from Tegra which has them >> built-in.
We have the *default* environment built-in, which is used when no valid environment is found in flash. If there's an environment in flash, it gets used rather than the built-in default. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
