From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:13:38 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] lsxl: add support for lschlv2 and lsxhl In-Reply-To: <201203272255.59259.michael@walle.cc> References: <71fe5a4390221fcccac67a4d54ff9785.squirrel@ssl.serverraum.org> <201203272255.59259.michael@walle.cc> Message-ID: <20120327211338.4806B2002FF@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 Michael, In message <201203272255.59259.michael@walle.cc> you wrote: > > Wolfgang, what do you think about relaxing this policy a bit and allowing this > class of devices (no service port/serial port available, no storage for the > MAC address besides the environment) to use hardcoded values (maybe defined in > a place common to all boards). Again, i don't think my device is the only one > with this problem. Probably it is not the only device, but eventually all the others found other working solutions? I still fail to understand why you would need fixed network settings. Evenin emergency cases, the only parameter you really need is a MAC address, all others can be fetched for example from a DHCP server. As for the MAC address, it is in such emergencies OK to use a random locally administered Ethernet address. Note the "random" - hard- coding the same address for all devices is definitely a No-Go. 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 Disc space - the final frontier!