why would beagle and panda boards not have CONFIG_MCI_STARTUP set?

[Sascha Hauer]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 03:33:32PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   slowly working my way thru how to create an appropriate environment
> for my beagle xM and when i boot with the default beagle-configured
> MLO and barebox.bin, there are no disk devices defined as described
> here:
> 
> http://wiki.barebox.org/doku.php?id=user:mmc-sd
> 
>   that's obviously a problem since the xM and pandaboards have no
> NAND and must boot off of SD card.
> 
>   now, as i understand it, the MLO loader needs access to the MMC/SD
> card just to read barebox.bin, so i'm not at all surprised to see, in
> omap3530_beagle_xload_defconfig, the settings:
> 
> CONFIG_MCI=y
> CONFIG_MCI_STARTUP=y
> # CONFIG_MCI_WRITE is not set
> CONFIG_MCI_OMAP_HSMMC=y
> 
>   but in omap3530_beagle_defconfig, you have only:
> 
> CONFIG_MCI=y
> CONFIG_MCI_OMAP_HSMMC=y
> 
>   if i read it correctly, you can add the line:
> 
> mci0.probe=1
> 
> to your environment.  but with boards like beagles and pandas, why
> would you *not* configure with:
> 
> CONFIG_MCI_STARTUP=y
> 
> it would seem to make no sense to not have that.  wouldn't that config
> setting be a no-brainer on any board that boots *only* off of SD?
> 

Yes, this option should be set in the defconfig for such a case. Not
probing SD cards is only useful when the normal usecase is to boot from
nand where probing of SD cards would delay the boot time.

Sascha

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