info request about u-boot_env

[Tore Martin Hagen]

Nicolas LAURANCE wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I managed to acces my SD Card (SanDisk SDSDQ-8192-E11M) using a slow
> 5000000 clock.
>
> My uboot version is 1.3.2-moko12
> downloaded 9/6/2008 [1]_
>
> .. [1]
> http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8-update/gta02v5_and_up-u-boot.bin
>
> but here is more question about u-boot_env
>
> Of course during my pilgrimage I borked completely my environment and
> had to use devirginator
> I connected to the uboot boot prompt via putty and copied/pasted what I
> wanted.
> I witnessed some strange chars on screen, I think my bork came for that
> reason
>
> Question 1
> -----------
> I see that devirginator can generate a new boot config
> and then it's just a matter of loading it with dfu-utils
> Does anyone have spec of the file?
>  I'd rather have a small python script that can generate a conf from a
> text or xml file than edit with setenv
> I understood (maybe wrongly ?) that it's a binary file that  requires to
> be of a certain size, include a CRC32 checksum ....
> Couldn't find more info on this list or the wiki
>   
It is a text file that starts with a 32 bit crc and then the rest is 
text where each parameter is separated with a \0 and a double \0\0 after 
the last. The rest of the partition is filled with 0xff. The crc is 
calculated over the hole flash partition.

You can get the crc code from U-Boot home page.

There must be a lot of people that has written a program for updating 
the U-Boot environment. (I have at my work, but I have to check if I can 
just publish it).

Tore Martin Hagen

> Question 2
> -----------
> When I had errors, the screens almost flashes on the error. I hadn't
> enough time to read it.
> Is there a way to slow this ?
>
> best regards
> NiL
>   
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