linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] avr32: add ATAG

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:02:47 +0200
From:	"Andreas Bießmann" <andreas.devel@...glemail.com>
To:	Andreas Bießmann <biessmann@...science.de>
CC:	kernel@...32linux.org,
	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@...el.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] avr32: add ATAG_BOARDINFO

Am 13.04.2011 10:07, schrieb Andreas Bießmann:
> The ATAG_BOARDINFO is intended to hand over the information
> bd->bi_board_number from u-boot to the kernel.
> 
> This piece of information can be used to implement some kind of board
> identification while booting the kernel. Therefore it is placed in .initdata
> section and can be accessed via the new symbol board_number only while
> initializing the kernel.

Tested with mainline u-boot plus patch
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/97573 on atstk1002.

regards

Andreas Bießmann
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