On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:37 AM Lukasz Majewski <lu...@denx.de> wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 8:23 AM Eugeniu Rosca <ero...@de.adit-jv.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Should it default to enabled if avb is used? > > > > > > I think at this specific moment in time, 'bcb' is orthogonal > > > (meaning it is neither a direct, nor a reverse dependency) to any > > > other Android feature in U-Boot. This could be re-assessed, if > > > platform maintainers start to rely on 'bcb' in their U-Boot > > > environments on regular basis. > > > > 'bcb' looks like something I'd be interested in, not running Android > > at all... currently I (ab)use the bootcounter to communicate between > > the kernel and U-Boot when I want to force a board through recovery, > > I don't know your exact use case, but wouldn't it be better to use envs > (with redundancy) and fw_setenv / fw_printenv from Linux user space? > > Now those envs even support setting default values for u-boot (as there > is now separate library used for it). Moreover there is OE/Yocto's > recipe 'u-boot-fw-utils' which can be easily used and installed. >
It's a long story... I'm constrained by historic choices, which makes using the environment problematic. But you're right. -- Alex Kiernan _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot