On 18:01 Mon 11 May , Wolfgang Denk wrote: > 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. So no I do not understand why you nack it
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