[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4]: arm: Kirkwood: Set MAC address during registration for kirkwood egiga

[Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:27:57 +0200
Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:

> > Should Linux otherwise read the passed U-boot environment and set it up
> > by itself?
> 
> Unfortunately ARM Linux does not provide yet a standard way to pass
> the MAC address from the boot loader. In the long term this problem
> will be solved by using the device tree for ARM; in the meantime,
> some drivers use a "ethaddr=" command line parameter (but that will
> probably bring up discussions on the Linux front again).

OK, so until ARM has moved to the device tree approach (and from LKML I
see there is some vocal opposition to this), we'd still need to resort
to some driver-specific hack [with Linux support] for this?

Or is it OK to do some board-specific "hack" to initialize it like

  board/atmel/at91rm9200ek/misc.c

does it?


Coming from a PowerPC-setting, I must say I miss the device trees
though :-)

// Simon