From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 18:18:29 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 10/10] [ARM] TQMA31: new kernel param.	to
	pass the eth MAC addr to the Linux eth chip driver
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On 16:50 Fri 04 Jul     , Jens Gehrlein wrote:
> Some Linux drivers like the smc911x driver, as used on TQMA31, rely on the MAC address
> in the appropriate register, but U-Boot resets the controller after every transfer.
> A patch for the Linux driver is necessary to extract the MAC address from the kernel
> boot parameter line and set the MAC address register accordingly.
> This patch adds the paramater "ethaddr" to the U-Boot default environment so that the
> user cannot forget it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Gehrlein <sew_s@tqs.de>
> ---
> 
>  include/configs/TQMA31.h |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/include/configs/TQMA31.h b/include/configs/TQMA31.h
> index 504cb57..e9e5d78 100644
> --- a/include/configs/TQMA31.h
> +++ b/include/configs/TQMA31.h
> @@ -275,6 +275,7 @@
>  		"jtag=on "						\
>  		"console=ttymxc0,115200\0"				\
>  	"bootargs_nfs=setenv bootargs ${bootargs} "			\
> +		"ethaddr=${ethaddr} "				        \
why don't you use nwhwconf parameter?

Best Regards,
J.