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On 2016-01-23, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2016-01-23, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> I believe the following to be true based on experiments with my two
>> sheevaplugs: 
>>
>> If your Sheevaplug has a u-boot version prior to 2014.10+dfsg1-5,
>> including any of the original "Marvell" versions, the environment is
>> located at 0x60000 and this should be reflected in the "Device offset"
>> field in the /etc/fw_env.config file.
>
> I got the impression from Martin Michlmayr in a thread on debian-arm
> that the original Marvell versions had their offset at a different
> location?
>
>   https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2016/01/msg00103.html
>
> So the 0x60000 address isn't exactly for all versions prior to
> 2014.10+dfsg1-5...
>
>
>> If your Sheevaplug has a u-boot version of 2014.10+dfsg1-5, e.g. if
>> you upgraded u-boot while running Debian Jessie, or 2016.01+dfsg1-1
>> or later from Debian Stretch or later, the environment is located at
>> 0x80000 and this should, in turn, be reflected in the "Device offset"
>> field in the /etc/fw_env.config file.
> ...
>> If this is correct, it needs to be reflected in
>> /usr/share/doc/u-boot-tools/examples/sheevaplug.config so that users
>> can configure /etc/fw_env.config correctly for their particular machines.
>
> The current 2016.01+dfsg1-1 package includes entries for both offsets
> (0x60000, 0x80000), with the "legacy" one commented out:
>
>   https://bugs.debian.org/781874
>
> If you could please provide a patch detailing exactly what you would
> like changed, that would be appreciated.

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