[U-Boot-Users] Help U-Boot NFS filesystem->bootloader MAC

[NZG <ngustavson@emacinc.com>]

>  In general, a Linux driver shall not make any assumptions about any
> initialization being done (or not done) by a boot loader; instead, that
> driver is responsible for performing all of the necessary initialization
> itself.
IMHO the MAC is an exception to this.
Since it's supposed to be hardcoded to the board it's inappropriate for the OS 
to be dynamically assigning it.
Currently we set the MAC from the protected flash of U-Boot into our 
Coldfire's fec before starting the OS(which is not necessarily Linux).
The boards can then be appropriatly shipped to customers with pre-programmed 
MAC addresses identifying the module, independent of the OS.

I realize this discussion centers around an ARM, however, so there may be 
hardware weirdness I don't know about that prevents this type of approach.

NZG


On Thursday 08 June 2006 2:49 pm, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Marco,
>
> in message <448864F6.8060106@koansoftware.com> you wrote:
> > BTW if you really want a quick and dirty solution you can use this
> > little patch.
> > http://www.koansoftware.com/it/art.php?art=86
>
> May I please ask you to pay a little more respect to Copyright?  This
> article   was   stolen^H^H^H^H^H^Hcopied   from   our   DULG  without
> permission, without including a copyright notice and a pointer to the
> license used, and without any credit to previous authors.
>
> You cannot do that.
>
>
> Wolfgang Denk