[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] net: Adds Fast Ethernet Controller driver for Armada100

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Aug 23 13:06:29 CEST 2011


Dear Ajay Bhargav,

In message <1058764603.122757.1314095393033.JavaMail.root at ahm.einfochips.com> you wrote:
> 
> > I think someone NAKed this whole part with MAC randomisation and he was right 
> > about it ... you're supposed to configure the MAC properly yourself.
...
> MAC randomization is done in U-Boot by many already. I am

U-Boot is big and contains lots of poor code. And many people have a
strange skill of always picking poor examples only when copying code.
So it always makes sense to double-check.

> confused... just like i was when working with GPIO :) Is it something
> which has changed lately?

No, this has not changed lately.

Just re-read Mike's message:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/106117



Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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