On Feb 20, 2006, at 6:29 AM, Peter Seebach wrote:

> The specific example in question is the TAMS 3011, which has an  
> emac0 (on
> opb0, which is the bus PCI is attached to, and MUST come first),  
> and an EEPROM
> which is not part of the emac0, which probes later, and which is  
> needed to
> correctly attach the emac0.

If you can assume that the eeprom exists always, then hard-wire it in  
platform-specific code.  Other platforms do this (hard-wire existence  
of an SEEPROM on I2C, for example, which is what  
seeprom_bootstrap_read() exists for...)

-- thorpej