Re: Can i access the barebox env from linux

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In case anyone is interested; for a barebox x86 project I wrote a library that overrides fopen/fclose/open/close/etc a while back, which allows read access to the environment sector if properly configured. I managed to get it working on arm/mips with mtdblock as well.

In the near future I'd like to write a kernel driver to read the filesystem properly, this was more of an experiment.

Cheers,

Michel
On 03/26/2014 12:33 PM, Alexander Aring wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:31:03PM +0100, Alexander Aring wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 04:44:30PM +0530, Ashutosh Singh wrote:
Thanks Alex,

The script is quite helpful.
But since i am saving my barebox.env in nand and want to mount, modify
and write it back to nand.
Do you have a safer solution so that complete env data won't corrupted.
1. You need to save the bareboxenv as image, the right place would be
    /tmp which is tmpfs and this uses ram for storing data. You need inotify
    support in kernel and I am sure tmpfs also supports inotify. You also need
    the inotify userspace utilities.

2. The image should write via nandwrite from mtd-utils [1]. Look for
    the nandwrite manpage. nandwrite should write the tmp-image from bbenv
    to your nand mtd device.

3. To read the image from bbenv partition you should also not use
    bareboxenv tool directly. Use nanddump for that and then use
    bareboxenv to extract these files to /tmp/bbenv or whatever.

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