Someone could explain what fex "machine" does?

 

Each board has specific machine, like machine=cubietruck. Who use this information? Uboot? Kernel? For what?

 

Thanks,

Leonardo

http://linux-sunxi.org/Fex_Guide

Hi Igor. The fex guide doesnt explain if machine is used by uboot or kernel to config some funcionality.

On 3/25/2018 at 10:16 PM, leomecma said:

Hi Igor. The fex guide doesnt explain if machine is used by uboot or kernel to config some funcionality.

The resultant file is like a devicetree file in that it contains hardware details.  Old kernels use this to get the addresses of devices for instance.  So it's mainly used by the kernel.  Some U-Boots have 'script_parser_fetch' code which means that the U-Boot is also accessing details from the file.

 

Cheers,

Steven