From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlev Zundel Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 10:41:29 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] net: extend the netdev to have a common way to set the hw mac address In-Reply-To: <200905121806.16642.vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Tue, 12 May 2009 18:06:15 -0400") References: <1242023969-13542-1-git-send-email-plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> <200905120826.26108.vapier@gentoo.org> <200905121806.16642.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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 -- Basically, Barnes & Noble separates things by how old they are -- current stuff is "Fiction", stuff from 20 years ago is "Literature", stuff from 100 years ago is "Classics", stuff from 400 years ago is "Shakespeare" [..] and stuff from 2000 years ago is "History". -- James "Kibo" Parry in -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: dzu at denx.de