[U-Boot] [PATCH/RFC] unify version_string

[Mike Frysinger]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 08:18, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/74xx_7xx/start.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/74xx_7xx/start.S
> ...
>>       .text
>>       .long   0x27051956              /* U-Boot Magic Number          */
>> -     .globl  version_string
>> -version_string:
>> -     .ascii  U_BOOT_VERSION
>> -     .ascii  " (", U_BOOT_DATE, " - ", U_BOOT_TIME, ")"
>> -     .ascii  CONFIG_IDENT_STRING, "\0"
>
> On PowerPC systems, the core is carefully consructed such that the
> U-Boot image starts with the magic number, followed immediately by
> the version string. That means, you can trivially identify any binary
> image, be it as file on the host or on the target, or programmed into
> flash, but just dumping the first bytes of it, for example:

cant you do this with a linker script update ?
-mike