[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] boot/uboot: add config option for uboot environment padding byte
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Dec 12 05:27:51 UTC 2017
Hello,
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:47:08 +0100, Johannes Schmitz wrote:
> config BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_ENVIMAGE_SIZE
> string "Size of environment"
> help
> - Size of envronment, can be prefixed with 0x for hexadecimal
> - values.
> + Size of environment in bytes, can be prefixed with 0x for
> + hexadecimal values. Needs to match exactly for correct CRC
"Needs to match exactly" with what ?
It needs to match with the size of the environment declared in the
U-Boot configuration.
> +config BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_ENVIMAGE_PADDING_BYTE
> + hex "Padding byte"
> + default 0x00
> + help
> + The byte used for padding at the end of the environment image.
I'm still not sure what is the point of customizing the padding byte.
Does someone has a use-case for that ? If not, I'm not sure it makes
sense to add a Buildroot option for it.
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
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