netdev - Re: wl1251 & mac address & calibration data

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Date:   Thu, 24 Nov 2016 20:46:01 +0200
From:   Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:     Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@...to.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@...il.com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wl1251 & mac address & calibration data

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 04:20:45PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Proprietary, signed and closed bootloader NOLO does not support DT. So
> for booting you need to append DTS file to kernel image.
> 
> U-Boot is optional and can be used as intermediate bootloader between
> NOLO and kernel. But still it has problems with reading from nand, so
> cannot read NVS data nor MAC address.

You could use kexec to pass the fixed DT.

A.