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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:59:00 -0600
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] U-Boot version string in kernel/userspace
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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.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale