linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

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Message-ID: <4A1D9A66.5020002@freescale.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 14:54:14 -0500
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
CC:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@...site.dk>,
	Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.de>,
	devicetree-discuss <devicetree-discuss@...abs.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
	Janboe Ye <yuan-bo.ye@...orola.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform

Scott Wood wrote:
> The patches that were proposed (and NACKed) in u-boot did exactly this 
> -- except supposedly they would only set the MAC address if the 
> interface were actually used prior to booting the kernel.

How does a Linux driver normally get a MAC address if it's not passed via the device tree and it isn't already programmed in the hardware?  Is there some file in /etc that stores these things?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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