[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] net: extend the netdev to have a common way to set the hw mac address

[Daniel Stenberg]

On Tue, 12 May 2009, Detlev Zundel wrote:

> I never ran across this outside of linux arm where people seriously repeat 
> the statement over and over that a whole initramfs with an initial userspace 
> and a pivot_root is plausible for nfs root whilst patches of a few lines 
> float around doing the same in the kernel.
>
> Now proof by repetition is not my preferred form of understanding a problem, 
> so I was asking for an explanation from someone arguing along the same 
> lines.

The wiki page that explains the problem and provides the suggested solutions 
does not repeat that same mantra. It mentions the initramfs method as one way 
out of several - I don't think it mentions that solution as particularly 
better in any way. Wolfgang also repeated (most of) them here just a few mails 
ago in this thread.

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