[U-Boot] [PATCH] board: am335x: Set serial# variable

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:05:43PM +0200, Sam Protsenko wrote:

> serial# variable is needed to show device correctly in "fastboot
> devices" output. It's useful when we have several devices (in fastboot
> mode) connected to single host and want to choose which one to flash.
> 
> Reuse board_serial variable (obtained from EEPROM in
> set_board_info_env() function) to set serial#. We can't use
> omap_die_id_serial(), because AM335x lacks DIE_ID, as can be seen from
> AM335x TRM. The other available option would be to reuse ethaddr
> variable, but using board_serial seems more reasonable for this purpose.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko at linaro.org>

Does fastboot handle things better or worse than before with
board_serial set to "unknown" ?  That's a quite likely thing to happen
as while serial should be set, but I'm sure there's boards in the wild
other than just mine that I might have broken, that do not have the
serial field set.

-- 
Tom
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