Re: Revision number in /proc/cpuinfo query

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 05:22:33PM +0200, javier Martin wrote:
> Hardware        : Vista Silicon Visstrim_M10
> Revision        : 0000
> Serial          : 0000000000000000
> 
> As i found in the code, Revision is the value of the global variable
> "system_rev", but I have noticed that only the pxa boards, magician
> and viper use this code.
> 
> Is it legal to add my own desired Revision code in my board file or
> should I respect some standard numbers for ARM?

The revision field is supposed to indicate the hardware revision of the
board which the kernel is running on.  There's no particular standard
for it, except that it's presented as hex in this file.

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