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From: baruch@tkos.co.il (Baruch Siach)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: mxs: Add initial support for Bluegiga APX4 Development Kit
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:54:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111018125447.GA2345@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9D481D.2070905@bluegiga.com>

Hi Lauri,

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:34:21PM +0300, Lauri Hintsala wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 10:58 AM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> >u-boot can pass any string you like to the kernel. Just do
> 
> Yes I know I can pass any string I like.
> 
> 
> >setenv bootargs "$bootargs fec.macaddr=0x00,0x04,0x9f,0x01,0x30,0xe0"
> >
> >at the u-boot prompt, or in a script.
> 
> ethaddr variable of uboot is taking mac addr in colon separated form
> (e.g. "00:04.9f:01:30:e0") and it is not very useful to have mac
> address in two different form in uboot envs.

Makes sense. The code doing the array module parameters is in 
kernel/params.c:param_array(). It seems that teaching this routine to parse 
the common MAC notation is not very hard. This IMO is a better solution than 
adding another MAC parser for a new top-level kernel parameter.

baruch

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-18 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-17  8:08 [PATCH] ARM: mxs: Add initial support for Bluegiga APX4 Development Kit Lauri Hintsala
2011-10-17  9:44 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-10-17 10:39   ` Baruch Siach
2011-10-18  7:45     ` Lauri Hintsala
2011-10-18  7:58       ` Baruch Siach
2011-10-18  9:34         ` Lauri Hintsala
2011-10-18 12:54           ` Baruch Siach [this message]
2011-10-18  7:27   ` Lauri Hintsala
2011-10-18  7:39     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-10-18  8:01       ` Lauri Hintsala
2011-10-18  8:12         ` Uwe Kleine-König

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