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

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Jan 08 2013 - 07:12:40 EST


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
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