From: Dimitar Penev <dpn@switchfin.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add PR1 Appliance - ISDN PRI board
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:40:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <015201ccabcb$944655d0$2901a8c0@dpn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 201111251708.02707.vapier@gentoo.org
Hi Mike,
>>
>> Currently we keep the MAC as u-boot variable 'ethaddr' and pass it to
>> Linux
>> using the boot comand line.
>
>right, generally all boards use the 'ethaddr' env var. the question is how
>does that get initialized ? many boards have dedicated storage so that
>even
>if the env gets erased, the value can be recovered from elsewhere. i guess
>this board doesn't have that redundancy ?
Indeed, PR1 & BR4 Appliance don't keep MAC in a dedicated storage.
It is probably not a bad idea but at the moment we just use the u-boot
environment to store our parameters.
The 'ethaddr' variable is assigned manually by the person who test the
boards
Best Regards
Dimitar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-25 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-17 22:49 [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add PR1 Appliance - ISDN PRI board Dimitar Penev
2011-11-19 5:42 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-11-19 15:18 ` Dimitar Penev
2011-11-19 20:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-11-20 20:24 ` Dimitar Penev
2011-11-25 20:55 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-11-25 21:54 ` Dimitar Penev
2011-11-25 22:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-11-25 23:40 ` Dimitar Penev [this message]
2012-01-08 9:24 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] Blackfin: pr1: new board port Mike Frysinger
2012-01-09 17:16 ` Dimitar Penev
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