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

Andy Fleming
2009-02-17T22:43:58Z

2009/2/17 Amit Margalit <amit.margalit@siverge.com>:
>> -----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 ?
>>
>> 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?

It sounds like u-boot *is* setting the address, but it was considered
invalid? Or are you saying that the address you put in the DTS is not
being overwritten by u-boot?

What version of u-boot are you using? U-Boot is supposed to overwrite
the dts in memory before passing it to the kernel.

Andy