Dear Dirk Behme, In message <5144a401.9020...@gmail.com> you wrote: > > I think the OMAP/Beagle community introduced serial EEPROMs to > identify their (add on) boards.
There are many such ad-hoc approaches, and most of them are just a PITA. If you are trying to optimize boot times, it is really a pain if you have to wait for inherently slow devives like EEPROMs on a I2C bus etc. Also, this addresses only the first half of the problem - the source of the information. The other half is how to pass the information to the kernel (-> DT). Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de The only solution is ... a balance of power. We arm our side with exactly that much more. A balance of power -- the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all. But the only one that preserves both sides. -- Kirk, "A Private Little War", stardate 4211.8 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot