Hi Mike, > 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.
No you lost me completely. The question cited above was whether you find it plausible to use initramfs - and thus userspace - to set a mac address. You answered that you find this plausible. This is what I do not understand. I never ran across this outside of linux arm where people seriously repeat the statement over and over that a whole initramfs with an initial userspace and a pivot_root is plausible for nfs root whilst patches of a few lines float around doing the same in the kernel. Now proof by repetition is not my preferred form of understanding a problem, so I was asking for an explanation from someone arguing along the same lines. Cheers Detlev -- We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. --- Oscar Wilde -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: d...@denx.de _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot