From: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] smc911x: allow mac address to be kept after smc911x_halt
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:05:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFAE0C4.50809@compulab.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911111023.36100.vapier@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 November 2009 03:03:04 Mike Rapoport wrote:
>> The smc911x_halt gets called after completion of network opration
>> and resets the chip. When there is no SROM attached to the SMSC, MAC
>> address gets reset as well. Add CONFIG_SMC911X_KEEP_MAC option to allow
>> boards with no SROM instruct the SMSC driver to keep mac address after the
>> reset
>
> the mac already has proper storage -- the environment. please read
> doc/REAdME.enetaddr. so i dont thinkt his option should be added.
If you have no network activity in U-Boot the mac address never gets from the
environment to the SMSC chip. So, when the kernel boots there's no mac address
neither in the chip registers nor in (absent) SROM.
> -mike
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-11 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-11 8:02 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] smc911x driver fixes and additions Mike Rapoport
2009-11-11 8:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] smc911x: return -1 when initialization fails Mike Rapoport
2009-11-11 15:16 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-11-12 13:35 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] smc911x: make smc911x_initialize return correct value (Was: Re: [PATCH 1/5] smc911x: return -1 when initialization fails) Mike Rapoport
2009-11-13 3:44 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-11-11 8:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5] smc911x: use dev->name in printfs Mike Rapoport
2009-11-11 15:18 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-11-11 21:56 ` Mike Rapoport
2009-11-11 22:11 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-11-11 22:24 ` Mike Rapoport
2009-11-11 22:36 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-11-11 22:45 ` Ben Warren
2009-11-11 22:50 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-11-12 1:58 ` Ben Warren
2009-11-13 3:23 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] smc911x_eeprom: fix building after smc911x overhaul Mike Frysinger
2009-11-13 3:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] " Mike Frysinger
2009-11-12 9:13 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5] smc911x: use dev->name in printfs Mike Rapoport
2009-11-13 3:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-11-11 8:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/5] smc911x: silence MAC mismatch warning Mike Rapoport
2009-11-11 15:22 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-11-11 16:07 ` Mike Rapoport
2009-11-11 8:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/5] smc911x: update SMC911X related configuration description Mike Rapoport
2009-12-07 21:06 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-12-07 21:10 ` Ben Warren
2009-11-11 8:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/5] smc911x: allow mac address to be kept after smc911x_halt Mike Rapoport
2009-11-11 15:23 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-11-11 16:05 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2009-11-11 16:32 ` Mike Frysinger
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