[U-Boot] MAC address being reset to 00:00:00:00:00:00 ?

Amit Margalit
2009-02-17T22:37:47Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Trimarchi [mailto:trimarchi at gandalf.sssup.it]
> Sent: ? 17 ?????? 2009 18:40
> To: Amit Margalit
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] MAC address being reset to 00:00:00:00:00:00 ?
>
> Hi,
>
> Amit Margalit wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Thanks. This solved the issue. I tracked this down and found that I was using an address that is
> a multi-cast address and it got rejected.
> >
> > Now I wonder why the address isn't being set by U-boot? Any ideas?
> >
> What's exacly your problem. I don't understand. Do you use a dts to pass
> the ethernet mac?
[AM] I use a dts, and I was under the impression that U-boot should overwrite the mac-address line before passing it to the kernel, so that the address used by U-boot is also used by the kernel. This is not happening, and I don?t know why.

Is there another way to pass a mac-address to the kernel?

Amit
>
> Michael