On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Robert Schwebel wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:45:35PM +0100, Marius Groeger wrote:
As usual, it depends. On PPCs for example, the bd_info structure is passed into the kernel, and drivers can access the MAC address from there. The right way to do it on ARM would probably be to define a corresponding tag.
Hmm. That's not very generic, which means that the drivers have to be architecture dependend as well, and that's bad.
Absolutely. One of the biggest shortcomings of Linux is the lack of having such things properly defined as a BSP layer across all the platforms. But then again, obtaining the MAC address IS highly platform dependent. Asking the boot-loader is just one way. There even are many boards that can boot off various boot-loaders. I don't believe that is ever going to be resolved cleanly.
Regards Marius
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