On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 03:59:54PM -0400, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> This is the first part of a larger effort I would like to propose to
> unify and simplify the default set of environment variables.
>
> When many early environment variables were named there were fewer images
> being loaded, usually just a kernel. At this time names like 'loadaddr'
> would suffice. Now we have more images and many more commands that act on
> them, often re-using the same variable for several different uses. The
> contents of a variable are also not immediately known causing one to have
> to look up a chain of variables to understand what a command is actually
> doing. I suggest the following.
>
> To start, all variables containing names should be prefixed with name_
> and addresses with addr_. This is like how K2 already does things and
> allows for simple universal commands like:
>
> get_fdt_nfs=nfs ${addr_fdt} /boot/${name_fdt}
>
> Which is very clear on what is intended here and would work across all
> board that using the this naming convention.
>
> We can do this one variable at a time, start here with addr_fit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <a...@ti.com>
> Acked-by: Andreas Dannenberg <dannenb...@ti.com>Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
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