[U-Boot] [PATCH 08/12] da850: pass board revision info to kernel

Netagunte, Nagabhushana nagabhushana.netagunte at ti.com
Tue Aug 9 15:52:03 CEST 2011


Hi Denk,

Thanks for comments.

Agree with you. We need to find a better way to find about board revision than the current method which depends on presence of i2c EEPROM on the board.

I will drop this patch also from this series. I will device a better patch
And submit later.

Thanks,
Nag

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 21:57:32, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear nagabhushana.netagunte at ti.com,
> 
> In message <1312299792-16415-9-git-send-email-nagabhushana.netagunte at ti.com> you wrote:
> > From: Manjunathappa, Prakash <prakash.pm at ti.com>
> > 
> > The Spectrum Digital AM18xx EVM contains I2C EEPROM compared
> > da850/omap-l138 Logic PD EVMs. ...
> 
> Sorry, I cannot parse this.  Please reformulate.
> 
> > +	/* Spectrum Digital AM18xx EVM contains I2C EEPROM compared
> > +	   da850/omap-l138 Logic PD EVMs. This information is used to
> > +	   differentiate the EVMs and is passed to kernel via second
> > +	   byte of ATAG_REVISION. */
> 
> Incorrect multiline comment style.
> 
> > +	if (i2c_probe(0x50) == 0)
> > +		rev |= 0x100;
> 
> Would it not be better to provide #defines instead of these hardwired magic numbers (both address and mask)?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 
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