[PATCH 01/42] state: Make pointing to the backend using a phandle the only supported method

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon May 15 22:33:58 PDT 2017


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:14:28PM +0200, Jan Remmet wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:18:00AM +0200, Jan Remmet wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 09:03:05AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > All other methods are broken for some time already: When starting the
> > > kernel the state code rewrites the state node in the device tree and
> > > replaced the "backend" property with a phandle - even when the target
> > > can't be described as a phandle. Since using phandles is the nicest way
> > > to point to the storage device anyway remove the other methods.
> > Is there a way to use block devices as storage? On eMMC we use mtd style
> > partitios inside the sd/mmc host node to access barebox and
> > barebox-environment. But using this barebox-state didn't find the backend
> > path.
> Using barebox-state 2016.12.0 the states from the mtd style partition is found
> now.

There's v2017.03.0 already. Or was that the version you tried before and
failed with?

Sascha

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