u-boot/patches: Identify as Tow-Boot in TPL/SPL, SMBIOS, and drop date#206
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Again, this is not meant to erase the hard work from U-Boot, but to correctly message to the user and people helping people that this is not exactly U-Boot, so things may differ.
If it wasn't for the fact it would get unwieldy, and a bad idea, I would take inspiration from HTTP User-Agents and have something like
U-Boot (Tow-Boot -006) 2022.07. But it's not like anything is scripting against theU-Bootidentifier here. And if they are, it likely needs to be discouraged.Other than the early logs in TPL and SPL, this can be observed as such in SMBIOS information when booted through UEFI:
This allows identifying exactly what was used to boot the operating system.