From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BC34C800AB for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:17:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 14 Jul 2011 09:17:21 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,529,1304319600"; d="scan'208";a="30329198" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.255.17.207]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 14 Jul 2011 09:17:20 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: poky@yoctoproject.org Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:17:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-8-generic-pae; KDE/4.6.2; i686; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201107141717.19891.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] linux-yocto: allow configuration of MAC addresses for mpc8315e-rdb X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:17:23 -0000 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thursday 14 July 2011 16:57:42 Bruce Ashfield wrote: > The change looks fine, in the sense that it'll work, but it's a lot of > hoops to jump through for the mac address. In the past, we've solved this > by allowing the mac address to be specified via the bootline, which we > could then simply drop into the boot environment and have it work more > easily. > > I didn't think of this when we were talking about this issue, but now that > I see the change ... it's been faulted into the right memory banks. > > I'll dig up these patches, and we can take them for a spin and hopefully we > can drop this part of the series. If we have a better solution that would make things easier for the user I'd definitely prefer it over this. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre