On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 01:53:33 +0100 Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/10/2014 01:41 AM, David Miller wrote: > > From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 01:37:32 +0100 > > > >> The mechanism is manual, no automatic way to determine it. > > > > We recognize BIOS and ACPI bugs and work around them, by looking at > > version information and whatnot, so you really can't convince me that > > something similar can't be done here perhaps in the platform code. > > Hmm, if the is a way to determine the version of that particual u-boot > I'd be happy to exploit that information. If there isn't a way for a kernel to determine the U-boot version then maybe that should get fixed instead. That also solves your problem because if you can't find the uboot version you know its too old. Alan -- 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
