[U-Boot] what's the uboot way to pass eth*addr to linux ?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 20 February 2010 04:37:17 Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:30:32AM +0300, Maxim Podbereznyi wrote:
> > Hi Philippe!
> > 
> > May be it is a little bit tricky but you can just read the u-boot
> > environment from you Linux driver and use the "ethaddr" variable. I did
> > the same for osk5912
> 
> Thanks, but I need something more straightforward.  The ethernet driver in
> linux must know the mac address at startup to be able to have root on nfs.

a small static initramfs would take care of this just fine
-mike
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