[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] net: extend the netdev to have a common way to set the hw mac address

[Scott Wood]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:48:28AM +0200, Detlev Zundel wrote:
> Can you please explain to me, why you think it to be reasonable to
> demand providing an initramfs in the order of 100s of k to set an
> attribute of a hardware device which has its own driver?

Kind of defeats any space-usage argument against putting device trees in
ARM instead...

> Apart from being constantly repeated, I do not understand this reasoning
> at all.  My (old-school) belief was that an operating system deals with
> abstracting the hardware thus userspace does not need to (nor should)
> know too many hw details.

There's more to the operating system than the kernel.

-Scott