On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:33:46AM +0100, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: > Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > But does U-Boot properly provide machine information to the kernel these > > > days? I have been and still being burned by U-Boot hardcoding the > > > _wrong_ machine ID, and therefore custom built kernels from k.o simply > > > won't boot on those boards without hacking the kernel source. > > With "our" U-Boot you can override the compiled-in machid with an > > environment variable. I didn't implement this patch but I think it's > > not that difficult. I will check tomorrow if I can easily get a patch > > out of our scm. > > I proposed this patch for a long time, but it was rejected by Wolfgang.
One solution to that problem is to have someone who maintains a separate tree for uboot which does have the feature in. Then it becomes a matter of community choice whether they use the official tree or the tree with sensible machine-id configurability. That way, those who want the configurability can have it, and Wolfgang can avoid having his tree polluted with useful features he doesn't want. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
