On 17/03/15 07:15, Olliver Schinagl wrote: > Hey Iain, > > On 17-03-15 01:38, Iain Paton wrote: > >> The eeproms are physically present on all boards as far as I can tell, >> however on every olinuxino I have, they are blank from the factory (i.e. >> content of every byte is 0xFF). > > Yeah they are all blank, with good purpose, it's for the user to define > what to do with it ;)
That's all good, up until we hard-code a format into u-boot or the kernel at which point the user doesn't get to decide anymore. >> 3) Allows for configurable format > As for 3, not sure how feasible that is. Where do you store the storage > definition? First few bytes defines the storage, then the actual > storage? While possible, it adds a lot of overhead. But as always, > everything is up for discussion. Perhaps it could be something defined in a Kconfig entry? Compile time configurable will probably be ok for most things. > Easier, yes, but not useful at all. On our end, for example, we want to > have our own unique serial numbering scheme, unrelated to Olimex's > numbering. Now we may use olimex boards, in the future, we may decide to > build our own boards, for example. Exactly. I simply want something that, as far as possible, covers all of those possibilities. Not something that only fits a single, use for a single person, where the rest of us have to carry patches to make it useful for us as well. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
