[U-Boot-Users] MAC address setting

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <44ACCBE1.32244.109A0E at mircofuchs.web.de> you wrote:
>
> initialize this correctly, but this is obviously not the case. I 
> worked around this problem by doing a ping manually before booting 
> linux or by inserting the eth_init() function call in 
> start_armboot().

I just want to point out that this is a really bad idea. Instead, you
should fixe the problem where it existis, i. e. in the Linux  driver.
If  you  want, implement a way to pass the MAC address from U-Boot to
Linux, either as a boot argument or by your platform-specific way  of
passing  such  parameters [I never understood why nobody came up with
an ATAG for the MAC address yet. But maybe this  would  just  be  too
simple.]

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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