Re: devicetree repository separation/migration

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On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:47:09AM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 05:07:12PM -0800, Frank Rowand wrote:
> 
> >> Why are the changes not submitted upstream?  (Or if they were submitted, why
> >> were they not accepted?)
> >
> > The descriptions where to find the environment are obviously barebox
> > specific and not acceptable upstream.
> 
> Why not? Wouldn't it be useful if you could find where the environment
> is from the running Linux image so that you can change variables
> without rebooting into Barebox first?

Indeed that would be very useful. Generally that would require some
generic binding for referring to partitions on mtd devices, partitions
on block devices and EEPROMs. If you think such a binding would have a
chance upstream I could try and come up with a binding.

Sascha

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