Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD, In message <20090511163728.gb32...@game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote: > > > then we agree you're doing it wrong and this patch is not needed/wanted > > > > there is this FAQ, but i think we can add more info to it: > > http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/EthernetDoesNotWorkInLinux > It does not work ether
What is "it" in this sentence? You start a discussion here which is off topic on the U-Boot list. It deals with a problem that is caused by the ARM Linuxkernel design. It's a very old problem, that has been discussed many times before, and it's unlikely that we willsolve it here. If you want to solve it, then please explain it to RMK. > how do you deal with multiple nic? Other (more reasonable architectures) use a device tree (current PowerPC), a binary data structure (old PowerPC), or command line arguments. > how do set a mac for NFS Rootfs? Other (more reasonable architectures) use a device tree (current PowerPC), a binary data structure (old PowerPC), or command line arguments. > how do you boot a *mainline* kernel? Other (more reasonable architectures) use a device tree (current PowerPC), a binary data structure (old PowerPC), or command line arguments. The fact that mainline ARM has serious deficiencies is another story. Or can you explain why the ARM kernel cannot load and uncompress a ramdisk image from NOR flash, why we instead have to load it to RAM first, adding a completely unnecessary copy operation? It's just one of the issues with the ARM Linux kernel that need to be fixed *there*. But, as mentioned, this is off topic here. 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: w...@denx.de "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot