Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > > > Unfortunatly we need it to set the enetaddr in the register of the soc > > > evenif > > > there is no ethernet transfer as for the macb on at91 or the dm9000. > > > This how the kernel pass the mac address for the bootloader. > > > > You mean, this is how U-Boot is supposed to pass the MAC address to > > the Kernel, right? > > > > Well, strictly speaking this is (1) in direct violation of U-Boot's > > design principles which say NOT to initialize things it does not use > > itself, and (2) a bug in the Linux kernel that should be fixed there. > > > > In this case it may be just writing to a register without further > > initialization of the hardware, but if we allow for that you can bet > > that tomorrow someone will try and add code that requires more > > extensive initialization of the hardware for the same purpose, and he > > will argue that his code must go in because there is preexisting code > > that does the same. > this exactly what is done only write mac hw register > without init the eth stack > > before we do need to init the mac and detect the phy if we want to store > now we have to call the set_hw_enetaddr
Yes, I perfectly understood this. You did not have to explain it again. Did you understand what I wrote, too? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
