On 09/01/15 11:17, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
So this will load on any Quark device, Galileo or not, that doesn't
provide a
system_id. Is there any reason we need to support 0.8.0 and earlier
firmware?
Every Galileo Gen1 device ships with firmware version 0.7.5. You can do
an EFI capsule update to 0.8.0 which still isn't DMI-enabled - or you
can go and get a firmware greater than 0.9.0 and get DMI strings.
I should add to that. Hundreds of the Gen1 devices were given away @
MakerFaire Rome 2013, and AFAIK thousands were given to universities. So
there's probably a few thousands boards floating around with the 0.7.5
firmware that we want to support.
Like I say - I think the fall-back is the simplest option and is also
safe. I can add in the old way of identifying the boards and we can
review it for appropriateness. I didn't include that old method for the
fallback because it involves mapping SPI flash and parsing custom
headers but - it works - even if it is ugly.
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