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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] access u-boot environment variables from kernel space
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 10:26:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1354638414.16710.1@snotra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGm1_kuScPNR-cg_dMVqctxmmchQjHUCY15Pj2Q5B+1rQT_gCA@mail.gmail.com> (from yegorslists@googlemail.com on Tue Dec  4 07:24:51 2012)

On 12/04/2012 07:24:51 AM, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Manukumar  
> <manukumar@signal-networks.com> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > How to access u-boot environment variables from kernel space or user
> > space in P1012 processor.
> >
> > The variables required to be accessed from uboot environment section
> > are:
> >
> > eth1addr
> 
> You can get the MAC address from related registers of your Ethernet
> controller, provided they where set by u-boot. This is way the network
> driver goes.

No, you get that from the device tree.  You cannot rely on U-Boot to  
have initialized the network hardware, or on the network hardware to  
not have been reset since then.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-04 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1337677828.2382.30.camel@Manukumar>
2012-05-22 14:15 ` [U-Boot] Nand flash R/W,saveenv issue Marek Vasut
2012-05-22 17:56   ` Scott Wood
2012-05-23  5:56     ` Manukumar
2012-05-23  8:02       ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-05-23  8:30         ` Manukumar
2012-05-23 16:16           ` Scott Wood
2012-05-30  5:02             ` [U-Boot] problem while making kernel up Manukumar
2012-05-30 16:18               ` Scott Wood
2012-05-31  4:15                 ` Manukumar
2012-05-31 16:21                   ` Scott Wood
2012-06-01  3:58                     ` Manukumar
2012-06-01 10:10                     ` Manukumar
2012-06-01 17:15                       ` Scott Wood
2012-06-06  8:13                         ` Manukumar
2012-07-05 10:27                         ` [U-Boot] USB detection Manukumar
2012-07-05 11:45                           ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-07-05 15:34                             ` Marek Vasut
2012-07-09  8:47                             ` Manukumar
2012-07-09 12:18                               ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-07-10  2:17                               ` Marek Vasut
2012-07-12  6:10                                 ` Manukumar
2012-10-25 12:21                                   ` Manukumar
2012-10-25 13:26                                     ` RgC
2012-09-26 10:42                               ` [U-Boot] bootm command in U-boot Manukumar
2012-09-26 14:14                                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-10-03 12:24                               ` [U-Boot] Booting through nand flash with other address Manukumar
2012-10-03 15:22                                 ` Scott Wood
2012-10-04 10:18                                   ` Manukumar
2012-10-04 17:21                                     ` Scott Wood
2012-12-04 12:04                                       ` [U-Boot] access u-boot environment variables from kernel space Manukumar
2012-12-04 13:24                                         ` Yegor Yefremov
2012-12-04 16:26                                           ` Scott Wood [this message]
2012-12-04 16:35                                             ` Steve Strobel
2013-01-25  6:50                                             ` Manukumar
2013-01-25  9:22                                               ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-11-23  4:08                                   ` [U-Boot] Quer on JTAG Manukumar
2012-11-23  5:33                                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-09-11 12:47                       ` [U-Boot] Nand Flash Programing and Board Bring Up Manukumar
2012-09-11 14:10                         ` Marek Vasut
2012-05-23 22:45       ` [U-Boot] Nand flash R/W,saveenv issue Scott Wood

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