Hi Ben, On Tuesday 02 October 2007 10:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 10:10 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > it seems linuxppc-embedded is going away. I should have posted this here > > in the first place, so sorry for the cross-post. > > > > I need to export some read-only board-specific information (serial > > number, boot mode jumper configuration, ...) that are collected from > > various locations (CPLD, flash, U-Boot, ...) to userspace applications. > > > > Could anyone advice me on the preferred way to do that ? I can easily add > > a quick&dirty sysfs/procfs based implementation, but I was wondering if > > there was some kind of clean and generic way. > > Userspace can read /proc/device-tree no ? :-)
Except I'm still using ARCH=ppc. I know I shouldn't :-) The MPC8272 isn't well supported in ARCH=powerpc. Scott Wood submitted some patches I need before switching. > Appart from that, it's common to stick that sort of thing > in /proc/cpuinfo... /sys/firmware may be an option if you have shitloads > of stuff .. It's not really CPU information, but I guess I can stick that in there. Best regards, -- Laurent Pinchart CSE Semaphore Belgium Chaussée de Bruxelles, 732A B-1410 Waterloo Belgium T +32 (2) 387 42 59 F +32 (2) 387 42 75 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
