Upgrading u-boot needed ?

[Mikael Berthe]

* Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> [2008-08-04 23:55 +0200]:
> 
> FWIW, I learned (from the community list I believe) som time ago that
> you can use 'grep  Bootloader /dev/mtdblock0' from a shell on the
> FreeRunner (and possibly the 1973 as well) to get the u-boot version.
> Like this:
> 
> root at om-gta02:~# grep  Bootloader /dev/mtdblock0
> Neo1973 Bootloader U-Boot 1.3.2-moko12

That's NOR u-boot version, and you can get NAND's with mtdblock1:

root at om-gta02:~# grep Bootloader /dev/mtdblock1
Neo1973 Bootloader U-Boot 1.3.2+gitr18+64eb10cab8055084ae25ea4e73b66dd03cc1a0cb

...which can be useful to check after an upgrade.

HTH too :)
Regards,
-- 
MiKael