U-Boot environment management from userspace

Ed Tanous ed.tanous at intel.com
Fri May 31 03:25:24 AEST 2019


On 5/28/19 11:40 AM, Vernon Mauery wrote:
> 
> 2) Create yet another daemon that would provide a R/W interface
> (probably just using the D-Bus properties interface) that would act as a
> manager of U-Boot environment variables. It might even be able to place
> an inotify watch to get notified when an external process (fw_setenv)
> modifies the environment (like from a script or something) so the D-Bus
> properties could send out a PropertiesChanged notification.

This would be my preference.  It keeps the functionality self contained,
and allows at least some security around adjusting parameters, given
that said daemon could whitelist/blacklist certain parameters at some
point in the future.


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