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From: Olliver Schinagl <o.schinagl@ultimaker.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:31:43 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/5] tools: Add tool to add crc8 to a mac
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Hey all,

On 26-01-16 15:56, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> Hi Albert,
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Albert ARIBAUD
> <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> wrote:
>> Hello Joe,
>>
>> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:45:52 -0600, Joe Hershberger
>> <joe.hershberger@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Olliver Schinagl
>>> <o.schinagl@ultimaker.com> wrote:
>>>> +++ b/tools/gen_mac_addr.c
>>> This is not "generating a mac address", right? Its point is to create
>>> a CRC for the user-supplied MAC address.
>>>
>>> Perhaps a better name would be "gen_ethaddr_rom_crc".
>> Hmm, why the "_rom" part?
> Just to give more hints to the observer that this is for creating a
> rom or eeprom image to be read by the associated new code in U-Boot.
Well depending on the output, it could even be used to verify what is 
stored in an ROM. So i understand Albert's reasoning that it may not be 
related to ROM at all
>
> Cheers,
> -Joe
>
>> Amicalement,
>> --
>> Albert.

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Met vriendelijke groeten, Kind regards, ??????

Olliver Schinagl
Software Engineer
Research & Development
Ultimaker B.V.