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
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