On Monday, December 20, 2010 8:39 PM, Robert Mortimer wrote: > First off I aplogise for top posting. It is common on some of the > groups I am in You will be glad to know I have registerd our board > with the ARM registry I have updated my local git repo to reflect the > number we were given. None of the porting guides I found round the > internet seemed to include this step > > Please could you confirm my understanding that the unique reference > is passed to the loading Linux kernel to allow it to configure it's > self for the target hardware. >
The mach-type number has to be passed by the bootloader to the kernel via the register r1 in case of ARM based processors atleast. You can refer to http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/booting.php and http://www.linux-arm.org/LinuxKernel/LinuxNewPlatformPort for more on this. Regards, Vaibhav _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
