[U-Boot] [PATCH 21/27] cmc_pu2: get mac address from environment

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Tue Feb 17 01:03:27 CET 2009


On Monday 16 February 2009 17:56:17 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > The environment is the canonical storage location of the mac address, so
> > we're killing off the global data location and moving everything to
> > querying the env directly.
> >
> > Also rename load_sernum_ethaddr() to misc_init_r() so we don't need to
> > handle this board specially in common ARM code.
>
> ...
>
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_CMC_PU2
> > -	load_sernum_ethaddr ();
> > -#endif /* CONFIG_CMC_PU2 */
> > -
>
> If we bisect here, we have broken boards because load_sernum_ethaddr()
> is no longer called but the new init code is not installed yet.

umm, are you sure ?  the arm port is nicer than the ppc port because there is 
only one board that uses load_sernum_ethaddr().  so in 1 change, i dropped the 
call to load_sernum_ethaddr() and had the board move to misc_init_r().  i see 
no breakage in this change.
-mike
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