On Tuesday 12 May 2009 04:48:28 Detlev Zundel wrote: > >> > > how do set a mac for NFS Rootfs? > >> > > >> > use initramfs > >> > >> don't you think it's overkill to use a initramfs just for set a mac > >> address?? > > > > no, i think it's perfectly reasonable. and considering you have no other > > option here that'll get merged ... > > Can you please explain to me, why you think it to be reasonable to > demand providing an initramfs in the order of 100s of k to set an > attribute of a hardware device which has its own driver? > > Apart from being constantly repeated, I do not understand this reasoning > at all. My (old-school) belief was that an operating system deals with > abstracting the hardware thus userspace does not need to (nor should) > know too many hw details. > > Knowing that there is not a clear distinction line, I still fail to see > why a mac address of a network interface should be handled by > userspace. Can someone enlighten me here?
no one said it must be done in userspace, that was just one method for doing it. read the FAQ for other possibilities. -mike _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot