[PATCH 2/2] Switched SAMA5D4EK development board to the newer environment method.

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 04:54:09PM +0800, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> 
> > On Feb 11, 2015, at 4:35 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 03:26:46PM +0800, Bo Shen wrote:
> >> Hi J,
> >> 
> >> On 02/11/2015 01:06 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> 	as state before I use the atmel board for bootp everyday as the defaultenv-2 does not support
> >>> 	this Nack until it’s fixed
> >> 
> >> Do you mean the defaultenv-2 doesn't support the bootp feature or do
> >> you mean let Doug to keep the default boot from net?
> >> 
> >>> 	I did send patch for this in the past but they did not hit the mainline
> >> 
> >> Can you point us this? Thanks.
> > 
> > He meant this patch:
> > 
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/barebox/2012-September/thread.html#9304
> > 
> > Reading this discussion again I still have mostly the same opinion:
> > an /env/boot/* script should be simple, it should be adjustable.
> > 
> > We should resolve this now.
> > 
> > So Jean-Christophe, What you want is to boot your board with
> > informations provided by the dhcp server. Looking again at your patch
> > back then the following should do it:
> > 
> > /env/boot/bootp:
> > 
> > | #!/bin/sh
> > | 
> > | path="/mnt/tftp"
> > | 
> > | ifup eth0
> > | 
> > | # Set variables based on information provided by the dhcp request
> > | nfsroot="${global.dhcp.rootpath}"
> > | global.bootm.image="${path}/${global.dhcp.bootfile}"
> > | global.bootm.oftree="${path}/${global.dhcp.oftree_file}”
> 
> this is not possible unfortunately
> 
> As if you use symlink the nfs will not work
> it was work on defaultenv as it’s use the nfs commande and not FS
> The nfs command handle symlink;

Let me recap: On the host you have some directory exported as NFS. It
contains a link to some other position:

/export/somelink -> /some/other/file

Now if I mount /export on barebox 'somelink' points to /some/other/file,
a path that doesn't exist in barebox, some the file cannot be read. The
NFS command implementation now mounts '/some/other' from the NFS server
and reads 'file' from that location.

This is really a misfeature is something that we shouldn't support at
all.

Can't you just make your link a relative one inside the exported
directory? That works just fine and as expected.

Sascha


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