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

[Andrew Lunn]

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.

      Andrew