[U-Boot] [PATCH] Add PR1 Appliance - ISDN PRI board

Dimitar Penev dpn at switchfin.org
Fri Nov 25 22:54:29 CET 2011


Hi Mike,

>On Sunday 20 November 2011 15:24:12 Dimitar Penev wrote:
>> I have noticed however that you have removed the random MAC generation
>> which I would consider as a good feature.
>> What is your reasoning behind this?
>
>MAC randomization should not be the default mode for boards.  where does 
>this
>board store its MAC address in general ?

>on the bf537-stamp, we use the last sector of the parallel flash to store 
>the
>MAC so that it is saved across u-boot/linux updates and recovery.
>-mike

Currently we keep the MAC as u-boot variable 'ethaddr' and pass it to Linux 
using the boot comand line.

Best Regards
Dimitar




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier at gentoo.org>
To: "Dimitar Penev" <dpn at switchfin.org>
Cc: <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add PR1 Appliance - ISDN PRI board




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