On Wednesday 07 December 2011 13:39:06 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Ed Swarthout wrote:
so it is printed as part of the version command and visible when displaying the image in the various flash banks.
This allows "strings u-boot.bin | head -1" to identify target:
VU-Boot 2011.09-01427-g6ee5cf2 (Dec 07 2011 - 11:11:55) P4080DS
this `strings|head` is arbitrary and just happens to work for your setup
I don't think this is a good idea, especially as it afects the user interface for all boards.
+1
Please feel free to define local settings for boards that are maintained by you (oops... there aren't any...), but I don't want to change this globally.
isn't there though ? for Blackfin boards, i just use checkboard() to include board info. but specifically for the version string, doesn't defining CONFIG_IDENT_STRING in the board's config work ? -mike