On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 01:19:08PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > The bi_enetaddr field in struct bd_info is write-only; nothing ever > reads back the value. > > Moreover, the value we write is more or less random, and certainly not > something one can rely on: If the board has a writable environment and > the mac address has been stored there, we fetch that value. But if the > board doesn't, this code runs before initr_net() -> eth_initialize(), > and thus before the code in eth-uclass which fetches MAC addresses > from eeprom, fuses or whatnot and populates the (run-time) environment > with those values. > > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villem...@prevas.dk>
I believe in this case legacy means non-device tree PowerPC Linux (and perhaps VxWorks?) since for ARM we would pass in ATAGS stuff instead but PowerPC we did do gd? Been so long... Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> -- Tom
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