From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlev Zundel Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 10:39:27 +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: <20090512165932.GB3558@b07421-ec1.am.freescale.net> (Scott Wood's message of "Tue, 12 May 2009 11:59:32 -0500") References: <1242023969-13542-1-git-send-email-plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> <200905111257.00648.vapier@gentoo.org> <20090512000446.GD18336@game.jcrosoft.org> <200905112036.18168.vapier@gentoo.org> <20090512165932.GB3558@b07421-ec1.am.freescale.net> 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 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 -- Practice random senselessness and act kind of beautiful. -- 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