[U-Boot-Users] Transfer MAC address from u-boot to Linux kernel

[Marius Groeger]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Robert Schwebel wrote:

> I'm wondering what the "correct" way to export a MAC address from u-boot
> to a Linux kernel. No official driver but the au1000_eth one seems to
> have support for a "ethaddr=" command line parameter, and I think this
> does only work with "ethaddr=" being on the kernel commandline, not in
> the u-boot environment.
>
> How is this intended to work?

As usual, it depends. On PPCs for example, the bd_info structure is
passed into the kernel, and drivers can access the MAC address from
there. The right way to do it on ARM would probably be to define a
corresponding tag.

There are also patches to access the U-Boot environment right in the
flash using MTD.

Regards,
Marius

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