Dear Matthew Lear, In message <4a532251.8090...@bubblegen.co.uk> you wrote: > > U-Boot provides data containing board information to a resident OS that > may be booted. Are there plans to extend this so that an additional > 'level' of more specific board information can be provided to the OS?
There are no such plans, other than converting more and more architectures to use the device tree to pass such information, which inherently is extensible. > Specifically, and for example, is there a mechanism that U-Boot can use > to inform the OS (Linux in this case) that it has enabled the watchdog > on the cpu? Use the device tree. 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 Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
