[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] arm: add CONFIG_MACH_TYPE option and documentation

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Jul 5 00:16:12 CEST 2011


Dear Christopher Harvey,

In message <20110704210619.GA3218 at harvey-pc.matrox.com> you wrote:
>
> I'm curious, is it a feature that bd->bi_arch_number can be set at
> runtime? Do any boards actually make a decision about what value to

Yes, this is a feature. It comes in handy in a number of cases.

> set this to? If not, then maybe it should be a required value.  I've

Why?

> submitted some patches that deal with the same sort of issue, so I'm
> interested in seeing that happens to this one.

Sorry, I can't follow...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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