[U-Boot-Users] MAC address setting

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Jul 6 11:50:25 CEST 2006


In message <44ACDAB8.1000101 at mw-itcon.de> you wrote:
>
> as you can read here in the thread, you are sitting exactly between the 
> chairs of Wolfgang and rmk ;) ...

Only as far as the ATAG for MAC address is concerned [and actually  I
don't  complain  of  propose  anything  - I just don't understand RMK
here.]

> So you can either start a general discussion again, or put in the hack 
> with eth_init() as suggested, or look for another bootloader ;) ...

Or pass some  "ethaddr="  boot  argument,  which  is  IMHO  the  most
sensible  thing  to do as it is architecture-independent (guess which
options are available on - say - MIPS systems?)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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