From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
Cc: linuxppc embedded <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Where to Put Ethernet MAC Addresses?
Date: 01 Oct 2003 13:44:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1065037451.9737.585.camel@hermes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031001153209.D688@borg.org>
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:32, Kent Borg wrote:
> In boards where there is ethernet but no manufacturered in MAC address
> in the ethernet hardware, where does one get it? Does this become a
> userland problem to be handled in init scripts? It seems that
> ethernet initialization could also set the "manufacturer" MAC address,
> and it might be stored in flash next to the Linux image, or in some
> extra SPD bits, etc.
>
> What are the various right ways to do this?
Most embedded devices will handle this in the boot ROM. When Linux
is booted, the hardware address can be passed in along with other
platform information like amount of memory installed, etc.
--
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-01 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-01 19:32 Where to Put Ethernet MAC Addresses? Kent Borg
2003-10-01 19:44 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2003-10-01 19:48 ` Bret Indrelee
2003-10-01 20:27 ` Dan Malek
2003-10-03 13:33 ` Kent Borg
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2003-10-01 20:43 Howard, Marc
2003-10-01 21:12 ` Kent Borg
2003-10-02 7:18 ARIBAUD Albert
2003-10-02 13:36 ARIBAUD Albert
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