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From: Marc Reilly <marc@cpdesign.com.au>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Determining barebox version from linux
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:03:31 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012231103.31335.marc@cpdesign.com.au> (raw)

Hi,

I want to be able to determine what version of barebox I have on my NOR flash, 
after booting into linux.

The easiest way I thought of is something like:
cat /dev/mtd0 | grep "barebox 2010"

Another way to do this is to have the version_string (or other version info) 
at a fixed location in the barebox image. This feels like a overly rigid 
solution, and may be a pain to put into the build system.

Does anybody else accomplish this in a better way? (I don't want to pass the 
barebox version as an arg when booting the kernel - I'd rather it be more 
"standalone").

Cheers
Marc

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             reply	other threads:[~2010-12-23  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-23  0:03 Marc Reilly [this message]
2010-12-23  6:18 ` Baruch Siach
2010-12-23  7:07   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD

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