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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] ATSTK1002: Remove default ethernet	addresses
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:37:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071030163741.GA4534@loki.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000c01c81af3$e6d764f0$c81f1fac@silver>

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:53:40AM -0400, Robin Cutshaw wrote:
> Does Atmel not have an Ethernet vendor allocation?  Ideally, a unique MAC
> would be included on a sticker on each board.  This would provide something
> for each developer to use.  I'm not crazy about having a "default" address
> for reasons already mentioned.  What about a randomly generated MAC address
> should there not be one already set in flash?  This would provide for Ulf's
> no touch initial setup and still provide for a mostly non-dup solution?

You'd need a non-deterministic random seed... and an RTC doesn't count if
all the boards come back from a power outage at once. :-)

-Scott

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-30 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-29  7:45 [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] ATSTK1002: Remove default ethernet addresses Haavard Skinnemoen
     [not found] ` <00b901c81a15$ae74e170$01c4af0a@Glamdring>
2007-10-29 11:23   ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-10-29 11:45     ` Ulf Samuelsson
2007-10-29 11:58       ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-10-29 15:29         ` Ulf Samuelsson
2007-10-29 15:55           ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-10-30 12:53             ` Robin Cutshaw
2007-10-30 13:25               ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-10-30 16:37               ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-10-30 19:13               ` Ulf Samuelsson
2007-10-30 20:57                 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2007-10-30 20:18                   ` Ulf Samuelsson
2007-10-29 15:29         ` Ulf Samuelsson

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