Board names for 4xx

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 06:11:56PM +0200, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
> Dan Malek wrote:
> >
> > Tom Rini wrote:
> >
> > > I do wish someone else would speak up tho.  Does anyone out there have an
> > > opinion?
> >
> > If the information from /proc is just used for pretty print out of
> > information, I really don't care.  If there are applications that read
> > this for some internal configuration and flexibility, we better have a
> > standard format.
> Debian uses /proc/cpuinfo to find out what utility to use for the RTC
> (clock,hwclock). This could be fixed if the code from clock was integrated in
> hwclock. hwclock tries every method it knows until one works.

This is no longer true.  Woody anyways assumes that /dev/rtc will work in
the 'standard' way.  But,, debian does parse for machien type for doing
board/platform specific modules.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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