On Tue, 08 Jan 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2013, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 08 January 2013, Lee Jones wrote: > > >>> If there is not, there is no way to automatically load the overlays; you can always > > >>> use the kernel command line, or have the a user space application to request the loading > > >>> of a specific board's overlay. > > >> > > >> Unfortunately, there is no way to probe the UIBs. :( > > > > > > I thought that some of the newer UIBs had it, just not the old ones. > > > As Pantelis says, we could at least detect the ones that have an EEPROM > > > on them, and use a command line option or device tree attribute for the others. > > > > > > Arnd > > > > So I gather the new ones have an eeprom? > > I don't remember the details unfortunately. Lee should be the one who can find out. > IIRC there was at least a single integeger number on them. Not as far as I can remember. There was (is?) a crude method of identifying UIBs, but attempting to obtain certain I2C lines and testing which ones were accessible. However, if there is an issue with I2C, the wrong UIB was 'probed'. -- Lee Jones Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
