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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for OMAP3Stalker boards
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 09:42:10 -0700
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* Jason <lzg@ema-tech.com> [100505 19:09]:
> 
> A question about board version. Is it good to do a hardware check to find
> out hardware version?
>  Like function static void __init omap3_evm_get_revision(void) in
> board-omap3evm.c

Sure, that's the best option.

Some boards are also using the system_rev, which contains the
ATAG_REVISION passed from the bootloader. But then you depend on
the bootloader to pass it.. So hardare detection early on is
the most flexible way of doing this.

Regards,

Tony