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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <BANLkTim-gWWs+5ktKPTR+08uoQM-oZuwEw at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > On PowerPC systems, the core is carefully consructed such that the

s/core/code/, s/consructed/constructed/

> > 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 ?

Insert strings in the middle of code?  Sonds more complicated that
what it's worth.

I don't see the real problem.  I mean, we can provide the definition
of the string in some common header file, and then just use it where
needed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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