From: Tabi Timur-B04825 <B04825@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/9] mvgbe: Support preserving the existing MAC address
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:34:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DBC1DE7.3020904@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201104300017.49151.vapier@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> so implement this in your board file in misc_init_r or board_eth_init. have
> the code do something like:
> uchar enetaddr[6];
> if (!eth_getenv_enetaddr("ethaddr", enetaddr)) {
> /* ... read current MAC out of the driver's registers ... */
> eth_setenv_enetaddr("ethaddr", enetaddr);
> }
>
> then you dont need ugly config hacks in random drivers
This is a feature that could be applied to the e1000 drivers. The current situation is a mess. Some drivers ignore the environment, some of them always use it. This should probably be standardized.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-30 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-17 19:46 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] TS-7800 port for U-Boot Michael Spang
2011-03-17 19:46 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/9] arm926ej-s: Invalidate instruction cache in flush_cache Michael Spang
2011-03-20 2:30 ` arden jay
2011-03-20 3:44 ` Michael Spang
2011-03-20 5:36 ` arden jay
2011-03-20 8:18 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-03-20 14:14 ` arden jay
2011-03-20 18:26 ` Michael Spang
2011-03-21 5:44 ` Aneesh V
2011-03-21 14:14 ` arden jay
2013-07-29 7:19 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-07-29 12:57 ` Michael Spang
2013-07-29 14:09 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-07-29 14:22 ` Michael Spang
2011-03-17 19:46 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/9] mvgbe: Support preserving the existing MAC address Michael Spang
2011-04-24 23:50 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-25 11:37 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2011-04-26 4:23 ` Michael Spang
2011-04-30 4:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-30 14:34 ` Tabi Timur-B04825 [this message]
2011-05-01 5:40 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-26 4:20 ` Michael Spang
2011-04-30 4:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-03-17 19:46 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/9] orion5x: Increase maximum bank size to 128M Michael Spang
2011-03-17 19:46 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/9] orion5x: Fix wrong address in orion5x_sdram_bar Michael Spang
2011-03-17 19:46 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/9] ARM: Rename CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT to CONFIG_SKIP_CPU_INIT_CRIT Michael Spang
2011-04-24 23:53 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-26 3:44 ` Michael Spang
2011-03-17 19:47 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/9] ARM: Implement CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT for arm926ej-s Michael Spang
2011-04-24 23:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-25 7:30 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-04-26 4:44 ` Michael Spang
2011-03-17 19:47 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 7/9] Add board support for TS-7800 Michael Spang
2011-04-24 23:57 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-26 3:38 ` Michael Spang
2011-03-17 19:47 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 8/9] Add NAND " Michael Spang
2011-03-17 20:22 ` Scott Wood
2011-04-24 23:59 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-26 4:01 ` Michael Spang
2011-04-26 4:27 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-03-17 19:47 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 9/9] Add README " Michael Spang
2011-04-25 0:01 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-26 4:03 ` Michael Spang
2011-03-17 19:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] TS-7800 port for U-Boot Michael Spang
2011-03-17 20:01 ` Albert ARIBAUD
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