[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] smc911x: do net reset the chip if no EEPROM is connected

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Mon Apr 27 21:05:10 CEST 2009


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:56:17AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 27 April 2009 10:44:16 Daniel Mack wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:14:06PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > usually what i suggest to people are things like:
> > >  - pass $(ethaddr) via kernel command line and parse /proc/cmdline
> > >  - use the u-boot tools to read the u-boot env directly
> > >  - set the hw address with `ifconfig` or similar tool
> >
> > ... which doesn't help much when it's about booting from NFS root.
> 
> it works fine if you use an initramfs like everyone suggests

Or when you use a device tree. :-)

-Scott


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