Peter Pearse wrote: > Wolfgang > You wrote: >> And ARM doesn't even have a specific way to pass the MAC address to >> Linux. > Please expand on this comment for me.
He is referign to the numerous kcooments on this list over the past few years of how ARM dos not have a way for u-boot to pass inthe MAC to the kernel (via ATAG or any ohter easy way). THe kernel has to, by itself, figure out the MAC. > Is there another architecture in U-Boot passing the MAC > address that I could > look at to understand what you mean? > > Or are you referring to a kernel, architecture specific, command line > feature? look at PPC. old-style passses the MAC for each interface in the bd_t struct. new-style passes the mac address for each interface in the device tree (as local-mac-address tag) This is highly useful where there is no _common_ place to store the MAC that the eth driver knows about without a platform specific hack. This way the driver just looks in the dts tree and is happy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
