On Tuesday 12 May 2009 10:18:25 Detlev Zundel wrote: > 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.
i never said that a completely populated initramfs was needed. it can be accomplished pretty easily with very little code. -mike _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot