From: "Andreas Bießmann" <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>
To: "Andreas Bießmann" <biessmann@corscience.de>
Cc: kernel@avr32linux.org,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] avr32: add ATAG_BOARDINFO
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:02:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA574C7.6050904@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302682057-6244-1-git-send-email-biessmann@corscience.de>
Am 13.04.2011 10:07, schrieb Andreas Bießmann:
> The ATAG_BOARDINFO is intended to hand over the information
> bd->bi_board_number from u-boot to the kernel.
>
> This piece of information can be used to implement some kind of board
> identification while booting the kernel. Therefore it is placed in .initdata
> section and can be accessed via the new symbol board_number only while
> initializing the kernel.
Tested with mainline u-boot plus patch
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/97573 on atstk1002.
regards
Andreas Bießmann
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2011-04-13 8:07 [PATCH V2] avr32: add ATAG_BOARDINFO Andreas Bießmann
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