[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] nitrogen6x: Pass the correct CPU revision to the kernel

[Fabio Estevam]

Hi Eric,

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Eric Nelson
<eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:

> This is the **board** revision, right?
>
> At first glance, the kernel seems to be getting the silicon revision
> from the same place as get_cpu_rev():
>
> https://github.com/boundarydevices/linux-imx6/blob/boundary-imx_3.0.35_1.1.1/arch/arm/mach-mx6/cpu.c#L51
>
> http://git.denx.de/u-boot.git/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=arch/arm/cpu/armv7/mx6/soc.c;h=a8aad5dd0a6c8548277021ebe8f6e159dbf31b9b;hb=HEAD#l42
>
> Is there a reference to the ATAG that I'm not seeing somewhere?

Ok, so 3.0.35 treats cpu_rev correctly and do not assume this info to
be passed from the bootloader. I was confused with 2.6.35, where I had
issues with this on mx53.

So, it seems that nitrogen does not need to pass get_board_rev() at all then?

Regards,

Fabio Estevam