From: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4]: arm: Kirkwood: Set MAC address during registration for kirkwood egiga
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:44:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A56D52A.8010401@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090708130222.7b3381ae@marrow.netinsight.se>
Simon Kagstrom wrote:
> This patch sets the MAC address during registration in addition to
> during device init. Since U-boot might not access the ethernet device,
> Linux might end up with the MAC address unset.
>
I think this violates U-boot policy of only touching hardware if it's
used, but Wolfgang can say for sure. In general, initialize() functions
should just set up data structures and register the device. There's a
long history of MAC-address issues with ARM chips and Linux that I've
happily stayed clear of so can't claim to be an expert here.
regards,
Ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-10 5:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 11:01 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4]: arm: Kirkwood: Various egiga fixes Simon Kagstrom
2009-07-08 11:02 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4]: arm: Kirkwood: Set MAC address during registration for kirkwood egiga Simon Kagstrom
2009-07-09 8:49 ` Prafulla Wadaskar
2009-07-10 5:44 ` Ben Warren [this message]
2009-07-10 7:24 ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-07-10 8:15 ` Prafulla Wadaskar
2009-07-11 9:27 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-13 8:13 ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-07-17 18:50 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-11 9:25 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-08 11:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4]: arm: Kirkwood: Fix compiler optimization bug for kwgbe_send Simon Kagstrom
2009-07-21 5:40 ` Ben Warren
2009-07-21 5:41 ` Ben Warren
2009-07-08 11:05 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4]: arm: Kirkwood: Check the error summary bit for error detection Simon Kagstrom
2009-07-21 5:42 ` Ben Warren
2009-07-08 11:05 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4]: arm: Kirkwood: See to it that sent data is 8-byte aligned Simon Kagstrom
2009-07-08 12:17 ` Prafulla Wadaskar
2009-07-08 12:44 ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-07-08 21:03 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2009-07-08 12:35 ` Stefan Roese
2009-07-08 13:04 ` Simon Kagstrom
2009-07-21 5:47 ` Ben Warren
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