[U-Boot] [RFC] Program net device MAC addresses after initializing
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Sat Apr 10 08:59:38 CEST 2010
Dear Ben Warren,
In message <4BBFC784.20604 at gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > I don;t have a specific example in mind where it would actually cause
> > harm, but we might run into such situations and should be prepared to
> > handle them gracefully.
> >
> >
> OK. The next spin will have an easy opt-out, apart from 'setenv
> eth1addr 00:00:00:00:00:00'
Thanks - setting an invalid MAC address is something that makes
little sense to me: valid MAC address information might be needed
anyway, for example to passs it on to some OS we are booting.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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