McMullan, Jason wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 14:59 +0900, Shinya Kuribayashi wrote: >> Jason McMullan wrote: >>> Add 'ethaddr' and 'eth1addr' to the Linux kernel environment if >>> they are set in the U-Boot environment. >> Looking closely into linux/arch/*, I found that mips is the only >> architecture which supports the 'ethaddr' kernel parameter. Is this >> right? What I want to make sure is whether 'ethaddr' is an unusual >> kernel parameter or not. > > On our devices, the U-Boot environment is the only place the ethernet > MAC address is stored. > > Since the infrastructure for passing environment variables up to the > MIPS Linux kernel existed anyways, I decided that it would be a better > plan to use that machanism than to have the kernel dig through the > duplicate U-Boot environments.
Thanks for the explanations. As Linux/MIPS kernel supports this parameter anyway, it's good for U-Boot to support that, too. Applied, will send to Wolfgang asap. Shinya ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
