[PATCH] ARM: mx51: Print silicon revision on boot

[s.hauer@pengutronix.de (Sascha Hauer)]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 12:43:14PM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Arnaud,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org> wrote:
> > Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> >> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
> >
> > Why I like having boot log, I don't like have too verbose boot logs. If
> > you add this, you have a good reason (I hope), but I can't know
> > it. There's no patch description. So, please give a patch with proper
> > explanation of why you need that. Anyway, having a proper patch
> > description is imho always a good idea.
> 
> I think that printing the silicon version on boot is useful
> information. Many issues are fixed in the latest silicon revision, so
> while debugging mx51 issues it is good to know from the boot log if
> someone is using the latest silicon version or not.

+1

There is less useful information in the bootlog than this. Also, there's
the quiet option to not wait on the slow serial console.

Sascha


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