[Buildroot] [PATCH] uboot: support -p option for mkenvimage

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Simon Dawson,

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 08:47:20 +0100, Simon Dawson wrote:

> I have been using a crappy script to generate a u-boot environment
> image, and that script was padding with 0x00 bytes instead of 0xff
> (which is the default used by the mkenvimage tool). Having looked into
> this a bit more, it appears that the 0xff padding works just fine in
> my particular use case.
> 
> So, I no longer consider this patch necessary, and cannot provide a
> justification for it.

Ok.

> I have, however, found that I need to pass the -r (redundant
> environment) flag to mkenvimage; so I propose exposing that flag in
> the Buildroot menu.

Right, -r is needed for some U-Boot configurations, so having a config
knob for it makes sense.

Thomas
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