[U-Boot-Users] Mac Address communication to Linux
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Tue Jul 19 17:03:39 CEST 2005
In message <cbc1ab7705071906205ac8b0b9 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> Ok, i was just wondering if Linux try to access to the environnment variable
> "ethaddr" to get it's value (i've forget one or two words in my question and
> i ask you to excuse me for that)
This is obviously a question of which ethernet driver you are using.
On PowerPC the current standard is to pass the MAC addres(es) as part
of the bd_info structure; other architectures have different ways, or
the one who implements the driver invents one.
Of course it is also possible to access the U-Boot environment for
this purpose, but to me this seems to be overkill.
> but to access to ethaddr, someone say me that i can modify the Linux driver
> to catch the ethaddr by a custom option in my bootargs
Yes, this is an option, too.
> Content-Type: text/html; charsetÿO-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> Content-Disposition: inline
And please stop posting HTML.
Post plain text only.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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