[U-Boot-Users] MAC address question...

[Getz, Robin]

I have a board with a SMC91111 on it, with an EEPROM connected to it, to 
store the MAC address. This allows users of the board to re-flash the main 
flash with U-boot as many times as they want without worrying about 
managing the MAC address in the main flash.

However, changing the EEPROM MAC address is troublesome, because the 
/drivers/smc91111.c doesn't seem to support programming the attached 
EEPROM. (you can get_rom_mac, but not set_rom_mac).

Before I started adding things, does anyone else have the same issue?

What I was thinking of doing was defining some reserved memory locations of 
the processor as FLASH, and handle this in /board/specific/flash.c - a 
flash write to 6 memory locations will actually set the MAC address in the 
EEPROM attached to the LAN91111.

This solution is OK - it only effects my board, the downside is that if 
this is a problem other face, it doesn't help anyone else.

Thoughts?

Thanks
-Robin