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

[Fabio Estevam]

Hi Eric,

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Eric Nelson
<eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com> wrote:

> At the moment, it doesn't.
>
> I would really like to see us (the i.MX6 community) standardize
> the use of some fuses to specifically mean board revision.
>
> We're contemplating some board changes such as switching the
> ethernet PHY and having a convention for the use of a few
> bits in OTP would allow us to implement get_board_rev() once in
> a common place.
>
> Over the lifetime of most boards, it's likely that at least
> one board revision will have software implications and having
> a common way to express/detect this could prevent some churn
> in board-specific files.
>
> Such a convention would need to have broad sign off though.
>
> Let me know your thoughts on the subject.

Would this approach work?

http://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/imx/uboot-imx.git/tree/board/freescale/common/fsl_sys_rev.c?h=imx_v2009.08_3.0.0

Regards,

Fabio Estevam