[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] net: extend the netdev to have a common way to set the hw mac address

[Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>]

Hi Mike,

>> I never ran across this outside of linux arm where people seriously
>> repeat the statement over and over that a whole initramfs with an
>> initial userspace and a pivot_root is plausible for nfs root whilst
>> patches of a few lines float around doing the same in the kernel.
>
> i never said that a completely populated initramfs was needed.  it can be 
> accomplished pretty easily with very little code.  

Sure, but still, how big is such an initramfs, do you have any numbers
here?

And how many lines of C code does it take to set the MAC in the kernel?
Is this really worth it?

Cheers
  Detlev

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