Re: [RFC RFT PATCH v1 0/1] ARM: orion5x: convert D-Link DNS-323 to the Device Tree

[Mauri Sandberg <maukka@ext.kapsi.fi>]

On 29.04.22 02:26, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 11:25:00PM +0300, Mauri Sandberg wrote:
>> Hello Andrew!
>>
>> On 28.4.2022 3.18, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>>>> - there is no concensus on how to get ascii formatted MAC address from mtd
>>>>>     partitions so eth is not fully functional without setting the MAC from
>>>>>     userspace
>>>> Ideally this is handled by the boot loader, but that requires being
>>>> able to update
>>>> it.
>>> The mv643xx Ethernet driver is happy if it finds the MAC address
>>> already in the hardware. The vendor uboot often does this. Does tftp
>>> boot work in uboot? That would indicate it has access to the MAC
>>> address.
>> The u-boot is really limited and I am transferring new images over kermit.
> Ouch!
>
> If you can, try kexec. You can use wget or similar to grab the kernel
> from you host machine, and then something like:
>
> kexec --append 'rootwait ro earlyprintk console=ttyS0,115200n8' bzImage
>
> wget will be much faster then kernel.
>
Nice, this looks promising. Thanks for the tip.