From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:17:16 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] Bogus "Warning: failed to set MAC address" on Gumstix Overo In-Reply-To: <4E68DA54.4000005@balister.org> References: <4E68C67F.2080002@opensdr.com> <20110908144037.EA969140875B@gemini.denx.de> <4E68DA54.4000005@balister.org> Message-ID: <20110908151716.7364E1408767@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Philip Balister, In message <4E68DA54.4000005@balister.org> you wrote: > > My point is the code shouldn't be trying to write the MAC address, when > the MAC address is set in hardware. Earlier, (say 2011.6 but I am not > being scientific here) u-boots did the write thing (IE not print the > warning). This behavior has changed in the past few months. Yes, we started unifying the code. Please see doc/README.drivers.eth What is the problem with running eth_write_hwaddr() on this system? _This_ should be fixed. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled. -- Spock, "Operation -- Annihilate!" stardate 3287.2