On 09:46 Wed 04 Aug , Baruch Siach wrote: > Hi Jean-Christophe, > > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 02:02:13PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > > serial number is more for board ref than CPU ref > > as you can easly read it from the register. > > > > So why pass it via the ATAG? > > The point of the serial number ATAG is to uniquely identify the system. > Getting this unique ID from the CPU is as good as any other IMO. I'm not aware > of any other UID source on the mx25 3DS system. Besides, having the serial > number nicely listed in /proc/cpuinfo is far easier than reading registers. > > Anyway, patches 1 and 2 in this series are useful on their own, I think. I > intend to use this functionality for our own board. I've added the mx25 3ds > two lines patch to justify the bloat :). I agree about the other patch I just do not think we need to pass the CPUID to the kernel as he can easly get it by himself IMHO Best Regards, J. _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
