From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] U-Boot version string in kernel/userspace
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:59:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <479515A4.3080103@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4794C6A6.8000401@ge.com>
Gregoire Banderet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Waht's the best way to get the U-Boot version string (the one returned
> by U-Boot cmd "version") from userspace?
> Arg passed to the kernel?
> U-Boot env variables and use fw_getenv?
U-Boot disappears when the kernel loads, so the only cross-platform option is to
pass a command-line parameter to the kernel. Such a change would probably not
be accepted into the mainline, however.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-21 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-21 16:21 [U-Boot-Users] U-Boot version string in kernel/userspace Gregoire Banderet
2008-01-21 21:59 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2008-01-22 6:44 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-01-21 22:14 ` Ben Warren
2008-01-22 11:53 ` Andreas Schweigstill
2008-01-22 13:47 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-01-22 20:52 ` Robert Schwebel
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=479515A4.3080103@freescale.com \
--to=timur@freescale.com \
--cc=u-boot@lists.denx.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.