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

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 08 January 2013, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> 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?

I don't remember the details unfortunately. Lee should be the one who can find out.
IIRC there was at least a single integeger number on them.

	Arnd
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