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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2021-02-05 07:17:13 +0300
committerBin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>2021-02-06 14:18:41 +0300
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Makefile: Provide numeric versions
For SMBIOS we want to store the numeric version numbers in the tables. It does not make sense to parse the strings. Instead, add new #defines with the version and patchlevel. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
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@@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ The following are available:
U-Boot 2020.10 (Jan 06 2021 - 08:50:36 -0700)
U-Boot 2021.01-rc5-00248-g60dd854f3ba-dirty (Jan 06 2021 - 08:50:36 -0700) for spring
+ U_BOOT_VERSION_NUM (integer #define)
+ Release year, e.g. 2021 for release 2021.01. Note
+ this is an integer, not a string.
+
+ U_BOOT_VERSION_NUM_PATCH (integer #define)
+ Patch number, e.g. 1 for release 2020.01. Note
+ this is an integer, not a string.
+
Build date/time is also included. See the generated file
include/generated/timestamp_autogenerated.h for the available
fields. For example::