[U-Boot] recommended place to identify hardware using i2c-eeprom data.

[Stefan Roese]

On Friday 17 April 2009, Richard Retanubun wrote:
> I've tried extracting the information at board_early_init_r (because I need
> to initialize MAC address later using this information also) and store the
> information using setenv("partnum" "extracted_board_id");
>
> However, the resulting printenv after boot only contains "pa" with no data,
> so obviously I am doing something wrong (calling setenv too early?)
>
> Is there a recommended way/examples of doing this?
>
> I've thought about using the global data, but don't know if there is a
> struct member that is arch-independent. Thanks for everyone's time.

I suggest you take a look at "gd->board_type" (enabled via 
CONFIG_BOARD_TYPES). This could be what you are looking for.

Best regards,
Stefan

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