[U-Boot-Users] 1.3.2-rc2 83xx CONFIG_HAS_ETHX not passing MAC addresses

[Scott Wood]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:06:14PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote:
> > > Looks like something that was introduced between 2.6.24 and 2.6.25-rc3;
> > > does this mean that u-boot-1.3.2 will not be able to boot 834x
> > > processors (networking that is) with kernels before 2.6.25?
> > 
> > No, it just means you need the newer device tree.
> 
> Of course, but since the device tree is part of the kernel, 

It's not part of it; it just happens to be distributed with the kernel. 

There's no reason why u-boot couldn't have its own repository of device
trees.

-Scott