[PATCH 1/5] capemgr: Beaglebone DT overlay based cape manager

Pantelis Antoniou panto at antoniou-consulting.com
Wed Jan 9 00:26:36 EST 2013


Hi Arnd,

On Jan 8, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 January 2013, Lee Jones wrote:
>>> If there is not, there is no way to automatically load the overlays; you can always
>>> use the kernel command line, or have the a user space application to request the loading
>>> of a specific board's overlay.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, there is no way to probe the UIBs. :(
> 
> I thought that some of the newer UIBs had it, just not the old ones.
> As Pantelis says, we could at least detect the ones that have an EEPROM
> on them, and use a command line option or device tree attribute for the others.
> 
> 	Arnd

So I gather the new ones have an eeprom?

Regards

-- Pantelis



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