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
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