From: Matthias Klein <matthias.klein@linux.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH U-Boot] ARM: rpi_b: detect board revision
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:22:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <546CDFCD.5020903@linux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <546CD6DC.1020404@wwwdotorg.org>
Am 19.11.2014 um 18:43 schrieb Stephen Warren:
> On 11/18/2014 09:40 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> Detect the board revision early during boot, and print the decoded
>> model name.
>>
>> Eventually, this information can be used for tasks such as:
>> - Allowing/preventing USB device mode; some models have a USB device on-
>> board so only host mode makes sense. Others connect the SoC directly
>> to the USB connector, so device-mode might make sense.
>> - The on-board USB hub/Ethernet requires different GPIOs to enable it,
>> although luckily the default appears to be fine so far.
>> - The compute module contains an on-board eMMC device, so we could store
>> the environment there. Other models use an SD card and so don't
>> support
>> saving the environment (unless we store it in a file on the FAT boot
>> partition...)
>>
>> Set $fdtfile based on this information. At present, the mainline Linux
>> kernel doesn't contain a separate DTB for most models, but I hope that
>> will change soon.
>
> BTW, I should have mentioned that I'm hoping the kernel people CC'd
> here will take a look at the DTB filenames this patch assumes, and
> comment on whether they seem reasonable. If so, we can formulate a
> patch for the kernel to actually create all those DTs in the nearish
> future.
The DTB filenames look good for me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-19 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-19 4:40 [U-Boot] [PATCH U-Boot] ARM: rpi_b: detect board revision Stephen Warren
2014-11-19 17:43 ` Stephen Warren
2014-11-19 18:22 ` Matthias Klein [this message]
2014-11-24 15:50 ` Simon Glass
2014-11-25 3:38 ` Stephen Warren
2014-11-25 3:48 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-24 6:26 ` Stephen Warren
2015-08-02 21:29 ` Simon Glass
2014-12-08 21:41 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot,U-Boot] " Tom Rini
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