[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4]: arm: Kirkwood: Set MAC address during registration for kirkwood egiga
Simon Kagstrom
simon.kagstrom at netinsight.net
Mon Jul 13 10:13:07 CEST 2009
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:27:57 +0200
Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> > Should Linux otherwise read the passed U-boot environment and set it up
> > by itself?
>
> Unfortunately ARM Linux does not provide yet a standard way to pass
> the MAC address from the boot loader. In the long term this problem
> will be solved by using the device tree for ARM; in the meantime,
> some drivers use a "ethaddr=" command line parameter (but that will
> probably bring up discussions on the Linux front again).
OK, so until ARM has moved to the device tree approach (and from LKML I
see there is some vocal opposition to this), we'd still need to resort
to some driver-specific hack [with Linux support] for this?
Or is it OK to do some board-specific "hack" to initialize it like
board/atmel/at91rm9200ek/misc.c
does it?
Coming from a PowerPC-setting, I must say I miss the device trees
though :-)
// Simon
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