[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] ARM: imx: cm_fx6: export board and soc info to env

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Tue Jan 9 21:51:23 UTC 2018


Hi Christopher,

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 7:01 PM,  <christopher.spinrath at rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> From: Christopher Spinrath <christopher.spinrath at rwth-aachen.de>
>
> Like many other i.MX6 based boards, there are multiple variants of
> the cm-fx6 module featuring different SoC variants. Furthermore, the
> module can be paired with multiple baseboards.
>
> At the same time modern distribution like Fedora require U-Boot to
> select a proper devicetree which depends on the SoC variant and the
> baseboard.
>
> Thus, export the SoC variant and the actual board to the environment
> following the conventions of other i.MX6 devices (e.g. the NXP boards)
> such that the environment can select a devicetree file to load.
>
> For now, we only know for sure that the cm-fx6 module and the SB-fx6m
> baseboard amount to a Utilite Computer variant (depending on the SoC).
> Further combinations may be added in the future; e.g. CompuLab's
> evaluation board once someone can verify the identification string
> stored in its eeprom.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Spinrath <christopher.spinrath at rwth-aachen.de>

Patches look good.

Maybe you could combine both into a single one?


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