Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758126Ab1DMKCy (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:02:54 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:58201 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755456Ab1DMKCx (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:02:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rgnEnTqLODAdLlge7GO1ySfEOI43P/6uSg+VKbS9vBOwqIggCkmg2OkcjY2f0Q5ky5 gyr6cjc/IqXupfj2vkzPjgsYSWcx1u85gNib/MouJMXRjig7XPKskcwhz0EAChJUtf3o +LCh2jHaBCDf1QIOu9kIlZADfpwa5MqlgIrxI= Message-ID: <4DA574C7.6050904@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:02:47 +0200 From: "=?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBCaWXDn21hbm4=?=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBCaWXDn21hbm4=?= CC: kernel@avr32linux.org, Hans-Christian Egtvedt , open list Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] avr32: add ATAG_BOARDINFO References: <1302682057-6244-1-git-send-email-biessmann@corscience.de> In-Reply-To: <1302682057-6244-1-git-send-email-biessmann@corscience.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 802 Lines: 20 Am 13.04.2011 10:07, schrieb Andreas Bießmann: > The ATAG_BOARDINFO is intended to hand over the information > bd->bi_board_number from u-boot to the kernel. > > This piece of information can be used to implement some kind of board > identification while booting the kernel. Therefore it is placed in .initdata > section and can be accessed via the new symbol board_number only while > initializing the kernel. Tested with mainline u-boot plus patch http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/97573 on atstk1002. regards Andreas Bießmann -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/