From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add PR1 Appliance - ISDN PRI board
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:08:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201111251708.02707.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <011401ccabbc$cef97cc0$2901a8c0@dpn>
On Friday 25 November 2011 16:54:29 Dimitar Penev wrote:
> >On Sunday 20 November 2011 15:24:12 Dimitar Penev wrote:
> >> I have noticed however that you have removed the random MAC generation
> >> which I would consider as a good feature.
> >> What is your reasoning behind this?
> >
> >MAC randomization should not be the default mode for boards. where does
> >this board store its MAC address in general ?
> >
> >on the bf537-stamp, we use the last sector of the parallel flash to store
> >the MAC so that it is saved across u-boot/linux updates and recovery.
>
> 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 ?
-mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-25 22:08 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 [this message]
2011-11-25 23:40 ` Dimitar Penev
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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