Dear Simon Glass,
In message <1351813330-23741-5-git-send-email-...@chromium.org> you wrote:
> This option delays loading of the environment until later, so that only the
> default environment will be available to U-Boot.
>
> This can address the security risk of untrusted data being used during boot.
>
> When CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT is defined, it is convenient to have a
> run-time way of enabling loadinlg of the environment. Add this to the
> fdt as /config/delay-environment.
Please explain what exactly this is good for, or which exact "security
risks" this is supposed to fix.
As is, I strongly tend to NAK this.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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