Board specific info for no EEPROM case

Matt Porter porter at cox.net
Wed Dec 11 11:10:55 EST 2002


On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:18:53PM -0800, Prakash kanthi wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I do not have a NVRAM or EEPROM on my board (PPC405
> based). I see that during the linux booting, it is
> trying to read bd_t info from EEPROM and failing. Is
> there an alternative to this problem? Can i hardcode
> the stuff in decompress_kernel method and go ahead?

There are a pile of examples of this very thing in
arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.c.  Create an
embed_config() and hardcode your board-specific values
into the bd_t.

Regards,
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