[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm-extra][PATCH v3 1/4] cgtqmx6: Update Congatec-QMX6 machine configuration

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:47 AM,  <Alejandro.de-cabo-Garcia at congatec.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Due to decisions we've taken, having only one partition, for now
>> > I would like to keep it as it is.
>> >
>> > Anyway I will think about this in the near future.
>>
>> Does your generated .sdcard image works?
>>
>
> To make it work I have to change those three U-boot environment variables
> with:
>
> setenv loadfdt 'fatload mmc ${mmcdev}:${mmcpart} ${fdt_addr} ${fdt_file}'
>
> setenv loaduimage 'fatload mmc ${mmcdev}:${mmcpart} ${loadaddr} ${uimage}'
>
> setenv mmcroot '/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait rw'
>
>
> By default we have only one partition, installing the uImage and the dts
> files into
> the /boot folder.
>
> I don't like to have now two different structures for our customers, that's
> why I
> want to keep the old one.
>
> Even with that I could add some small description to make the sdcard file
> works.
>
> What do you think?

I think you to miss the opportunity to follow the community standard
may be counterproductive for Congatec in the long term.

The idea of the .sdcard is to allow user to go easy to a working
system and I think this is key for usability. All the documentation we
have done, and we are working on, rely on this to easy the first
experience of the user/customer.

In case your concern is to not change the U-Boot code in your Git, you
can adapt the environment using a patch file in the U-Boot recipe.

This is not a blocker to accept the patchset but I do believe this
would be a plus in first experience of users.

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