From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e23smtp03.au.ibm.com (E23SMTP03.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e23smtp03.au.ibm.com", Issuer "Equifax" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A59DDF74 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:15:57 +1000 (EST) Received: from sd0109e.au.ibm.com (d23rh905.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.225]) by e23smtp03.au.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l871FvUP021864 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:15:57 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (d23av03.au.ibm.com [9.190.250.244]) by sd0109e.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.5) with ESMTP id l871JUTk207978 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:19:30 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l871FuEN025670 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:15:56 +1000 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:06:17 +1000 From: David Gibson To: Josh Boyer Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] cuimage for Bamboo board Message-ID: <20070907010617.GM26079@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070831200449.598781000@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070831200643.029244000@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070903010111.GC31499@localhost.localdomain> <1188826931.3772.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070905011045.GC17189@localhost.localdomain> <1188952819.3223.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070905054645.GA26788@localhost.localdomain> <1188971635.3223.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1188971635.3223.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:53:54AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > 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. Ah, ok. Fine then. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson