In message <40C9BED6.3010809 at intracom.gr> you wrote:
>
> OK, lets look at the very simple problem of having two
> ethernet interfaces. From where do I get the ethernet
> mac addresses? Modifying bd_t with defines is gross.
This is hardware dependend. For example, on some boards the MAC
addresses are simply sequential - so you just add one :-)
> Putting everything on the kernel command line results in
> an unreadable command line.
Agreed. The command line is another bad solution to pass such
information.
> Yeah, having the bi_recs interface actually working
> would be ideal, but at the present time nothing is
> working and as AFAIK no-one is working on it.
Mark A. Greer made a nice proposal more than 2 years ago. See
discussion that started as "EV-64260-BP & GT64260 bi_recs" around
March 19, 2002.
I'd be happy to see this accepted.
> I have to have something working now and IMO just reading
> the u-boot environment is the fastest solution.
OK - accepted. But it's a quick and dirty hack, and not something
that should go into a public tree.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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