[U-Boot] how to pass ubott version to kernel

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Sep 8 22:30:20 CEST 2014


Dear Tony,

In message <1410205208.86586.YahooMailNeo at web171306.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> you wrote:
> 
> Anyone knows how can I pass a string (uboot ver) to the kernel,
>  so that will be possibel
> to print it  when boot is ready.I have FreeBSD
> 8.2 on a arm cpu.

I don't know about *BSD, but in Linux the simpest way is to pass that
string as part of the boot arguments, like:

	setenv bootargs "$bootargs u_boot_version=$vers"


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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