Re: Consistent MAC on Beagleboard xM

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 06/29/2011 02:19 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
> Op 29 jun 2011, om 23:00 heeft Darren Hart het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> We have an open bug for a consistent MAC on the Beagleboard xM on
>> the yocto project bugzilla. I want to track whatever solution you
>> have or plan to take. I didn't see a fix in linux-omap_2.6.39 at a
>> quick scan through the patches. There are two approaches suggested
>> in Comment 3 of the bug:
>> 
>> http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1073
>> 
>> They are: 
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-linaro/+bug/687396 
>> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2010-October/026240.html
>>
>>
>> 
Do you already have plans to address this? If not, do you have any
>> opinion on the proposed solutions in the bug?
> 
> I'd like to use the die-ID for the mac, but the proposed patch by the
> linaro folks is just wrong in the way it is done, I don't want to add
> 40 lines of code to my boardfiles just for the mac address *and* need
> to hardcode usb topology as well. 

Seems like a combination of the two approaches would be ideal. Enable
user-setting of the mac address and then have the boardfile update it
using the die-ID?

I'll mark this bug as WaitForUpstream.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel