From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] what's the uboot way to pass eth*addr to linux ?
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:32:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003051432.18036.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100220093717.GA9602@frolo.macqel>
On Saturday 20 February 2010 04:37:17 Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:30:32AM +0300, Maxim Podbereznyi wrote:
> > Hi Philippe!
> >
> > May be it is a little bit tricky but you can just read the u-boot
> > environment from you Linux driver and use the "ethaddr" variable. I did
> > the same for osk5912
>
> Thanks, but I need something more straightforward. The ethernet driver in
> linux must know the mac address at startup to be able to have root on nfs.
a small static initramfs would take care of this just fine
-mike
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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
2010-02-20 23:59 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-02-21 16:29 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-03-05 19:32 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
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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