From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] bootwrapper: Add dt_set_mac_addresses().
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:38:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4efa309babf03924b549b5c84436e33b@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070318115656.GA12765@localhost.localdomain>
> Well, first, details shmetails. It's the interface and approach I
> thin is better. Second, I don't think the zImage should be setting
> mac-address anyway. In OF that property is based on what the
> interface has been used for during booting, which the zImage doesn't
> know. The kernel doesn't need mac-address if local-mac-address is
> present, so we should just leave it out.
Exactly. "mac-address" is mostly historical anyway, from the
time that people used RARP and such. Nowadays, almost any network
interface on any board has a statically assigned MAC address and
so should use "local-mac-address".
It would be a good idea to remove any mention of "mac-address"
from the kernel :-)
>> Also, in the future, we hope to eliminate *all* MAC
>> address entries from the DTS files, and the boot loader and/or
>> bootwrapper will add one.
There *are* use cases for setting it statically in the DTS
(bring up activities, ...) -- so please don't make it
impossible to do so.
But yes, no "shipping" DTS should have it, preferably.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-21 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-16 17:26 [PATCH 00/17] bootwrapper/cuImage patches Scott Wood
2007-03-16 17:27 ` [PATCH 01/17] bootwrapper: Make ft_create_node() pay attention to the parent parameter Scott Wood
2007-03-17 1:23 ` David Gibson
2007-03-16 17:27 ` [PATCH 02/17] bootwrapper: Add dt_ops methods Scott Wood
2007-03-17 1:24 ` David Gibson
2007-03-16 17:27 ` [PATCH 03/17] bootwrapper: Add xlate_reg(), and use it to find serial registers Scott Wood
2007-03-20 3:50 ` David Gibson
2007-03-20 16:34 ` Scott Wood
2007-03-21 3:12 ` David Gibson
2007-03-21 13:49 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-21 16:01 ` Scott Wood
2007-03-21 19:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-16 17:27 ` [PATCH 04/17] bootwrapper: Make compression of the kernel image optional Scott Wood
2007-03-17 1:25 ` David Gibson
2007-03-21 15:03 ` Patch: " Milton Miller
2007-03-16 17:28 ` [PATCH 05/17] bootwrapper: misc device tree fixes Scott Wood
2007-03-21 1:51 ` David Gibson
2007-03-22 16:22 ` Scott Wood
2007-03-23 3:26 ` David Gibson
2007-03-21 13:22 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-16 17:28 ` [PATCH 06/17] Document the linux,network-index property Scott Wood
2007-03-17 1:26 ` David Gibson
2007-03-21 13:30 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-21 14:48 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2007-03-21 18:57 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-22 0:29 ` David Gibson
2007-03-22 11:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-23 3:19 ` David Gibson
2007-03-23 11:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-23 23:59 ` David Gibson
2007-03-24 0:23 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-23 15:00 ` Scott Wood
2007-03-23 16:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-16 17:28 ` [PATCH 07/17] bootwrapper: Add dt_set_memory(), to fill in the /memory node Scott Wood
2007-03-17 1:26 ` David Gibson
2007-03-21 13:32 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-21 23:42 ` David Gibson
2007-03-22 11:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-23 3:24 ` David Gibson
2007-03-23 6:49 ` Stefan Roese
2007-03-23 7:40 ` David Gibson
2007-03-23 12:34 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-16 17:28 ` [PATCH 08/17] bootwrapper: Make setprop accept a const buffer Scott Wood
2007-03-17 1:27 ` David Gibson
2007-03-16 17:28 ` [PATCH 09/17] bootwrapper: Add dt_set_cpu_clocks() Scott Wood
2007-03-17 1:28 ` David Gibson
2007-03-16 17:28 ` [PATCH 10/17] bootwrapper: Add dt_set_mac_addresses() Scott Wood
2007-03-17 1:31 ` David Gibson
2007-03-18 0:22 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-18 11:56 ` David Gibson
2007-03-19 15:09 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-20 3:59 ` David Gibson
2007-03-20 14:00 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-21 2:54 ` David Gibson
2007-03-21 15:01 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-21 15:25 ` Jerry Van Baren
2007-03-21 15:55 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-22 0:06 ` David Gibson
2007-03-22 15:13 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-22 15:15 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-03-23 3:22 ` David Gibson
2007-03-23 14:38 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-23 16:37 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-23 16:42 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-23 16:51 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-23 16:54 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-23 23:17 ` David Gibson
2007-03-20 18:17 ` Jon Loeliger
2007-03-21 13:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-21 15:15 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-21 19:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-21 19:10 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-21 19:34 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-21 19:39 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-21 19:48 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-21 20:03 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-21 20:22 ` Olof Johansson
2007-03-21 21:58 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-21 21:54 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-21 20:34 ` Doug Maxey
2007-03-21 22:01 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-21 13:38 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-03-21 15:09 ` Timur Tabi
2007-03-16 17:28 ` [PATCH 11/17] bootwrapper: Make set_cmdline non-static, and accept a const buffer Scott Wood
2007-03-17 1:36 ` David Gibson
2007-03-16 17:29 ` [PATCH 12/17] bootwrapper: Make set_cmdline() create /chosen if it doesn't exist Scott Wood
2007-03-21 13:32 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-16 17:29 ` [PATCH 13/17] bootwrapper: Add ppcboot.h Scott Wood
2007-03-16 17:29 ` [PATCH 14/17] bootwrapper: Add support for cuboot platforms Scott Wood
2007-03-16 17:29 ` [PATCH 15/17] bootwrapper: Add cmd_wrap_dt Scott Wood
2007-03-16 17:29 ` [PATCH 16/17] bootwrapper: Add a cuImage target Scott Wood
2007-03-16 17:29 ` [PATCH 17/17] bootwrapper: cuboot for 83xx Scott Wood
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