From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:08:01 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add PR1 Appliance - ISDN PRI board In-Reply-To: <011401ccabbc$cef97cc0$2901a8c0@dpn> References: <014501cca57b$1d65e800$2901a8c0@dpn> <201111251555.58146.vapier@gentoo.org> <011401ccabbc$cef97cc0$2901a8c0@dpn> Message-ID: <201111251708.02707.vapier@gentoo.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: