env: Allow U-Boot scripts to be placed in a .env file

At present U-Boot environment variables, and thus scripts, are defined
by CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS. It is painful to add large amounts of text
to this file and dealing with quoting and newlines is harder than it
should be. It would be better if we could just type the script into a
text file and have it included by U-Boot.

Add a feature that brings in a .env file associated with the board
config, if present. To use it, create a file in a board/<vendor>
directory, typically called <board>.env and controlled by the
CONFIG_ENV_SOURCE_FILE option.

The environment variables should be of the form "var=value". Values can
extend to multiple lines. See the README under 'Environment Variables:'
for more information and an example.

In many cases environment variables need access to the U-Boot CONFIG
variables to select different options. Enable this so that the environment
scripts can be as useful as the ones currently in the board config files.
This uses the C preprocessor, means that comments can be included in the
environment using /* ... */

Also support += to allow variables to be appended to. This is needed when
using the preprocessor.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun@nic.cz>
Tested-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun@nic.cz>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 6db5354..ae0262e 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -760,6 +760,13 @@ F:	test/env/
 F:	tools/env*
 F:	tools/mkenvimage.c
 
+ENVIRONMENT AS TEXT
+M:	Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
+R:	Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
+S:	Maintained
+F:	doc/usage/environment.rst
+F:	scripts/env2string.awk
+
 FPGA
 M:	Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
 S:	Maintained