[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 Scott,

> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:48:28AM +0200, Detlev Zundel wrote:
>> Can you please explain to me, why you think it to be reasonable to
>> demand providing an initramfs in the order of 100s of k to set an
>> attribute of a hardware device which has its own driver?
>
> Kind of defeats any space-usage argument against putting device trees in
> ARM instead...

Good point.

>> Apart from being constantly repeated, I do not understand this reasoning
>> at all.  My (old-school) belief was that an operating system deals with
>> abstracting the hardware thus userspace does not need to (nor should)
>> know too many hw details.
>
> There's more to the operating system than the kernel.

Sure - but how does this affect the question at hand?

Cheers
  Detlev

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