From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stage Iup - Fabrice & Frederic Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:20:45 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Mac Address communication to Linux In-Reply-To: <20050719124653.D8F66352586@atlas.denx.de> References: <20050719124653.D8F66352586@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Ok, i was just wondering if Linux try to access to the environnment variable "ethaddr" to get it's value (i've forget one or two words in my question and i ask you to excuse me for that) but to access to ethaddr, someone say me that i can modify the Linux driver to catch the ethaddr by a custom option in my bootargs 2005/7/19, Wolfgang Denk : > > In message you wrote: > > > > i'm wondering something, i don't understand how can U-Boot communicate > to an > > Embedded Linux. > > Can someone explain it to me please? > > Which architecture are talking about? And what exactly is your > problem? > > U-Boot passes arguments in registers; some of these registers may > contain pointers to things like the board info data (struct bd_info) > or the kernel commandline or a flattened OF device tree or ... > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > -- > Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de > NOTE: The Most Fundamental Particles in This Product Are Held > Together by a "Gluing" Force About Which Little is Currently Known > and Whose Adhesive Power Can Therefore Not Be Permanently Guaranteed. > -- Cordialement Fabrice & Fr?d?ric -- IFOTEC T?l : 04 76 67 53 53 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20050719/c6444f73/attachment.htm