[PATCH 17/61] bootwrapper: Add 8xx support.
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Jul 20 01:04:57 EST 2007
David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:13:05AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
>>Well, no. Even on a given board, it depends on the version of u-boot.
>>
>>There's nothing after enet1addr that the bootwrapper cares about,
>>though, so the only harm is if the device tree has a second network
>>interface but u-boot doesn't know about it, and the bootwrapper ends up
>>pulling in junk rather than leaving zeroes.
>
>
> That sounds like a terribly fragile way of handling things.
Yes, but that's inherent in the way the bd_t is defined. The robust way
is to get device tree support into u-boot.
-Scott
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