From: Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>
To: <poky@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] linux-yocto: allow configuration of MAC addresses for mpc8315e-rdb
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:01:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E204856.1030908@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107141717.19891.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
On 07/14/2011 09:17 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Thursday 14 July 2011 16:57:42 Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> The change looks fine, in the sense that it'll work, but it's a lot of
>> hoops to jump through for the mac address. In the past, we've solved this
>> by allowing the mac address to be specified via the bootline, which we
>> could then simply drop into the boot environment and have it work more
>> easily.
>>
>> I didn't think of this when we were talking about this issue, but now that
>> I see the change ... it's been faulted into the right memory banks.
>>
>> I'll dig up these patches, and we can take them for a spin and hopefully we
>> can drop this part of the series.
>
> If we have a better solution that would make things easier for the user I'd
> definitely prefer it over this.
I know we mentioned this on IRC, but why not just ask the user to
upgrade U-Boot? This isn't a bleeding edge board so that shouldn't be
difficult...
--
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-15 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-14 15:13 [PATCH 0/2] MPC8315E-RDB fixes Paul Eggleton
2011-07-14 15:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] linux-yocto: allow configuration of MAC addresses for mpc8315e-rdb Paul Eggleton
2011-07-14 15:57 ` Bruce Ashfield
2011-07-14 16:17 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-07-15 14:01 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2011-07-15 14:08 ` Bruce Ashfield
2011-07-14 15:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] README.hardware: update MPC8315E-RDB instructions Paul Eggleton
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