[U-Boot] MAC address being reset to 00:00:00:00:00:00 ?

[Amit Margalit]

Hi!

Thanks. This solved the issue. I tracked this down and found that I was using an address that is a multi-cast address and it got rejected.

Now I wonder why the address isn't being set by U-boot? Any ideas?

Thanks,

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Trimarchi [mailto:trimarchi at gandalf.sssup.it]
> Sent: ג 17 פברואר 2009 14:24
> To: Amit Margalit
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] MAC address being reset to 00:00:00:00:00:00 ?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Look at the linux git code the driver use this function to fill the mac
> address of your net,
> and so I think that somenthing fail here. Maybe is not valid? Try to
> verify if it fails.
> 
> const void *of_get_mac_address(struct device_node *np)
> {
>         struct property *pp;
> 
>         pp = of_find_property(np, "mac-address", NULL);
>         if (pp && (pp->length == 6) && is_valid_ether_addr(pp->value))
>                 return pp->value;
> 
>         pp = of_find_property(np, "local-mac-address", NULL);
>         if (pp && (pp->length == 6) && is_valid_ether_addr(pp->value))
>                 return pp->value;
> 
>         pp = of_find_property(np, "address", NULL);
>         if (pp && (pp->length == 6) && is_valid_ether_addr(pp->value))
>                 return pp->value;
> 
>         return NULL;
> }
> 
> Michael
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