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.

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