From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] what's the uboot way to pass eth*addr to linux ?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:08:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100220150845.F2BD5E3A67D@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100220093717.GA9602@frolo.macqel>
Dear Philippe De Muyter,
In message <20100220093717.GA9602@frolo.macqel> you wrote:
>
> Previously, the mac addresses were stored in the bd_info struct, but that
> has been removed, but alas not replaced by a common mechanism for all
> architectures.
Complain about this to the Linux architecture maintainers - there have
been many and longf discussions about this before.
Today we consider the device tree to be the Right Thing (TM) to pass
such information to the kernel, and more and more architectures use
this method.
As long as it's not available for your architecture, the most
straightforward way is to pass an "ethaddr=..." argument on the
kernel command line. Drivers can pick it up easily there. Just don't
expect that such Linux driver code will be accepted for mainline.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-20 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-19 17:50 [U-Boot] what's the uboot way to pass eth*addr to linux ? Philippe De Muyter
2010-02-20 7:30 ` Maxim Podbereznyi
2010-02-20 9:37 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-02-20 15:08 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2010-02-20 23:59 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-02-21 16:29 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-03-05 19:32 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-02-20 10:38 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-02-20 14:49 ` Maxim Podbereznyi
2010-02-21 0:47 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-02-21 4:07 ` Ben Warren
2010-02-21 16:25 ` Wolfgang Denk
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