[U-Boot-Users] Using 'ver' env var

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <5CBE65F7D9232C47861CB09B0954861C66A911@MAIL.infinitychannel.local> you wrote:
> 
> This, of course, doesn't work, as 'ver' is not saveenv'ed and

What makes you think so? saveenv does not do any filtering to exclude
any variable, so of course it gets saved, too.

> So this is a 2 part question...  What good is the 'ver' env var?  It's

To print the U-Boot version without need to reset the board.

> apparently only useful in u-boot itself and u-boot already has a
> 'version' command that gives you the same info.  And second, I'm sure
> I'm not the first person to want to see u-boot version in linux, so how
> have other accomplished this?

Just read the "ver" variable.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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