From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] cuimage for Bamboo board
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:53:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1188971635.3223.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070905054645.GA26788@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:46 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > > > > There must surely be a way to get the MAC addresses out of OpenBIOS...
> > > >
> > > > Probably. I just need to find out where they are stored.
> > >
> > > It's not buried somewhere in the arch/ppc/boot code?
> >
> > It's not OpenBIOS, it's PIBS. And the arch/ppc port uses __res, which
> > I'd rather avoid. But I did find where it's stored in flash, so I can
> > read it from there. I just need to do a little more work to get it in a
> > manner that can be used.
>
> Hrm.. is that address actually guaranteed to be stable across PIBS
> versions? If arch/ppc uses __res, I think we should do that too. It
> shouldn't be any worse than what we already do fot cuboot.
The address should be stable for all versions of PIBS that come on the
Bamboo boards, yes. And after looking at it a bit more, the wrapper in
arch/ppc for PIBS essentially mocks up __res by reading the values out
of flash. So the way I'm doing it is the way it was already done.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-05 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-31 20:04 [patch 0/6] Current 4xx patch queue Josh Boyer
2007-08-31 20:04 ` [patch 1/6] Fix bus probe on Bamboo board Josh Boyer
2007-09-03 0:58 ` David Gibson
2007-08-31 20:04 ` [patch 2/6] cuimage for " Josh Boyer
2007-09-03 1:01 ` David Gibson
2007-09-03 13:42 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-05 1:10 ` David Gibson
2007-09-05 0:40 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-05 5:46 ` David Gibson
2007-09-05 5:53 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2007-09-05 16:42 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-07 3:26 ` David Gibson
2007-09-07 1:06 ` David Gibson
2007-08-31 20:04 ` [patch 3/6] Walnut DTS Josh Boyer
2007-09-03 1:08 ` David Gibson
2007-09-02 13:59 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-04 12:42 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-05 2:36 ` David Gibson
2007-09-05 0:39 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-05 11:38 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-05 16:33 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-07 1:07 ` David Gibson
2007-08-31 20:04 ` [patch 4/6] Walnut defconfig Josh Boyer
2007-08-31 20:04 ` [patch 5/6] Walnut board support Josh Boyer
2007-09-03 1:11 ` David Gibson
2007-09-02 13:59 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-04 12:37 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-05 1:09 ` David Gibson
2007-09-05 3:01 ` David Gibson
2007-08-31 20:04 ` [patch 6/6] Walnut zImage wrapper Josh Boyer
2007-09-03 1:13 ` David Gibson
2007-09-02 13:58 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-05 16:36 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-07 1:22 ` David Gibson
2007-09-24 7:49 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2007-09-24 12:03 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-24 12:20 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2007-09-24 12:25 ` Josh Boyer
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