On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:27:57 +0200 Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Should Linux otherwise read the passed U-boot environment and set it up by itself?
Unfortunately ARM Linux does not provide yet a standard way to pass the MAC address from the boot loader. In the long term this problem will be solved by using the device tree for ARM; in the meantime, some drivers use a "ethaddr=" command line parameter (but that will probably bring up discussions on the Linux front again).
OK, so until ARM has moved to the device tree approach (and from LKML I see there is some vocal opposition to this), we'd still need to resort to some driver-specific hack [with Linux support] for this?
Or is it OK to do some board-specific "hack" to initialize it like
board/atmel/at91rm9200ek/misc.c
does it?
Coming from a PowerPC-setting, I must say I miss the device trees though :-)
// Simon