[RFC] omap3evm: Set preliminary environment

[Premi, Sanjeev]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sascha Hauer [mailto:s.hauer at pengutronix.de] 
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 5:54 PM
> To: Premi, Sanjeev
> Cc: barebox at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [RFC] omap3evm: Set preliminary environment
> 
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:54:28PM +0530, Sanjeev Premi wrote:
> > This is still work-in-progress, but wanted to
> > share them early for any feedback.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Premi <premi at ti.com>
> > ---
> >  I have made offline edits on these scripts before making
> >  this patch. There is a possibility of run-time failure.
> > 
> >  You will also observe many TODOs. Hope to get them sorted
> >  tomorrow - for a patch worthy of applying on the tree.
> 
> You are rewriting what we already have in form of the generic
> environment. You shouldn't do this, we've been there before.
> Before there was the generic environment every board had its
> own set of environment scripts. This resulted in tons of
> board specific scripts in slightly different states.

Agree. I didn't want duplication - but was swayed by "FIXME"s
the barebox/defaultenv and scripts in some of the boards that
I saw.

It is possible to override selective variables? e.g.

machine=FIXME
bootargs="console=ttyFIXME,115200"
kernel_part=disk0.2

Is there an example to refer?

~sanjev

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> Sascha
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