Environment is not overwritten at barebox update

[Ahmad Fatoum]

On 15.01.21 11:22, AD wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I've compiled an image and try to get my environment scripts on my target but I can't get them.
> 
> Here a snippet of my DTS :
> 
> / {
>         model = "Main Board";
> 
>         compatible = "fsl,imx6dl";
>     chosen {
>             stdout-path = &uart3;
>     };
> 
>     environment at 0 {
>         compatible = "barebox,environment";
>         device-path = &usdhc3, "partname:barebox-environment";
>     };
> };
> 
> &usdhc3 {
>     partition at 0 {
>         label = "barebox";
>         reg = <0x0 0x80000>;
>     };
>     partition at 1 {
>         label = "barebox-environment";
>         reg = <0x80000 0x80000>;
>     };
> 
>         ...
> 
>         # Many other partitions
> 
>         ...
> 
> };
> 
> 
> Here a snippet of my .config :
> 
> CONFIG_DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT=y
> # CONFIG_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION_GZIP is not set
> # CONFIG_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION_LZO is not set
> # CONFIG_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION_LZ4 is not set
> # CONFIG_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION_XZ is not set
> CONFIG_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION_NONE=y
> CONFIG_DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT_GENERIC_NEW=y
> CONFIG_DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT_GENERIC_NEW_MENU=y
> CONFIG_DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT_GENERIC_NEW_DFU=y
> CONFIG_DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT_PATH="arch/arm/boards/al-mx6/env/"
> 
> And here the content of : "arch/arm/boards/al-mx6/env/"
> 
> ad at debian:~/workspace/barebox/chrysalis/arch/arm/boards/al-mx6/env$ tree
> .
> ├── bin
> │   └── init
> ├── boot
> │   ├── al
> │   ├── tftp
> │   └── usb
> ├── config
> └── data
>     ├── ansi-colors
> 
> 
> Now, on the target, I'm upgrading barebox using a simple : cp barebox.img /dev/mmc2
> 
> 
> With the compiled date and hour from the Barebox logs at starting, I can see that the "new" barebox is really the one that I juste compiled.
> 
> But I don't have my env correctly updated :
> 
> barebox at Main Board:/env ls -l
> drwxrwxrwx              0 .
> d---------              0 ..
> drwxrwxrwx              0 bin
> -rwxrwxrwx             25 config
> drwxrwxrwx              0 data
> drwxrwxrwx              0 init
> drwxrwxrwx              0 menu
> drwxrwxrwx              0 network
> drwxrwxrwx              0 nv
> 
> 
> My config file is not the one that I compiled, and the boot/ directory has not been updated...
> But the newly created files are always updated.
> Only the already existing ones are not overwritten.
> Not sure of that, but it seems to be different between several boards...
> 
> 
> I am missing something?
> 
> 
> Here the starting logs :
> 
> 
> barebox 2019.07.0-06872-g2c7ca71f9-dirty #2 Tue Dec 8 18:41:29 CET 2020
> 
> 
> Board: Main Board
> detected i.MX6 DualLite revision 1.4
> i.MX reset reason POR (SRSR: 0x00000001)
> i.MX6 DualLite unique ID: f21fd23e181bc1d4
> mdio_bus: miibus0: probed
> imx-usb 2184200.usb at 02184200.of: USB EHCI 1.00
> imx-esdhc 2194000.usdhc at 02194000.of: registered as mmc1
> imx-esdhc 2198000.usdhc at 02198000.of: registered as mmc2
> imx-ipuv3 2400000.ipu at 02400000.of: IPUv3H probed
> caam 2100000.caam at 2100000.of: Instantiated RNG4 SH0
> caam 2100000.caam at 2100000.of: Instantiated RNG4 SH1
> caam 2100000.caam at 2100000.of: registering rng-caam
> netconsole: registered as netconsole-1
> GPR1 = 48600005
> malloc space: 0x3fdf6540 -> 0x4fdf653f (size 256 MiB)
> mmc2: detected MMC card version 5.0
> mmc2: registered mmc2.boot0
> mmc2: registered mmc2.boot1
> mmc2: registered mmc2
> running /env/bin/init...
> 
> Hit m for menu or any other key to stop autoboot:
> type exit to get to the menu
> barebox at Chrysalis Main Board:/
> 
> 
> Thanks for everything,

The barebox mutable environment is meant as development
feature, so you can override the built-in environment.

You'll probably want to run saveenv -z to override this
and force use of the built-in environment.

Cheers,
Ahmad

> 
> AD
> 
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