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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: Marc Reilly <marc@cpdesign.com.au>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Determining barebox version from linux
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:18:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101223061806.GA12874@jasper.tkos.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201012231103.31335.marc@cpdesign.com.au>

Hi Marc,

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:03:31AM +1100, Marc Reilly wrote:
> I want to be able to determine what version of barebox I have on my NOR 
> flash, after booting into linux.

[snip]

> Does anybody else accomplish this in a better way? (I don't want to pass the 
> barebox version as an arg when booting the kernel - I'd rather it be more 
> "standalone").

I set the board revision number, using armlinux_set_revision(), to pass the 
version of the bootloader to the kernel, and then extract it from the 
'Revision' field in /proc/cpuinfo. This solution is ARM specific, though.

baruch

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-23  6:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-23  0:03 Marc Reilly
2010-12-23  6:18 ` Baruch Siach [this message]
2010-12-23  7:07   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD

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