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