[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4]: arm: Kirkwood: Set MAC address during registration for kirkwood egiga

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Simon Kagstrom,

In message <20090713101307.30d3d13c at marrow.netinsight.se> you wrote:

> OK, so until ARM has moved to the device tree approach (and from LKML I
> see there is some vocal opposition to this), we'd still need to resort
> to some driver-specific hack [with Linux support] for this?

Driver-specific hack or fix yes - but in Linux, not in U-Boot.

> Or is it OK to do some board-specific "hack" to initialize it like
> 
>   board/atmel/at91rm9200ek/misc.c
> 
> does it?

I this driver does something like this, then it should ne fixed.

> Coming from a PowerPC-setting, I must say I miss the device trees
> though :-)

Me, too. Let's keep the fingers crossed that gcl makes fast progress.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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