[U-Boot] setting Ethernet address

Benedict Hewson
2014-03-16T07:00:55Z

On Saturday 15 Mar 2014 16:59:05 Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Benedict Hewson
>
> <benedict@hewson-venieri.com> wrote:
> > In the fec_get_hwaddr() function I have printed out the values returned by
> > imx_get_mac_from_fuse() and they are all 0.
> >
> > I have read in the README.imx6 file that the MAC address is stored in the
> > fuse bank. The default reset value according to the datasheet is 0, so is
> > this programmed by Freescale or the board vendor ?
>
> Looks like the vendor did not program the MAC address in the fuses then.
>
> Does it work if you pass 'setenv ethaddr <macaddr>'?
>
> Regards,
>
> Fabio Estevam

yes using setenv ethaddr and setenv ipaddr allows me to ping other computers
and to ping the board.
I was wondering why if I try to set ethaddr as part of
CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS it is not there when I boot the board.