[U-Boot] [PATCH] Add PR1 Appliance - ISDN PRI board

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 25 November 2011 16:54:29 Dimitar Penev wrote:
> >On Sunday 20 November 2011 15:24:12 Dimitar Penev wrote:
> >> I have noticed however that you have removed the random MAC generation
> >> which I would consider as a good feature.
> >> What is your reasoning behind this?
> >
> >MAC randomization should not be the default mode for boards.  where does
> >this board store its MAC address in general ?
> >
> >on the bf537-stamp, we use the last sector of the parallel flash to store
> >the MAC so that it is saved across u-boot/linux updates and recovery.
> 
> Currently we keep the MAC as u-boot variable 'ethaddr' and pass it to Linux
> using the boot comand line.

right, generally all boards use the 'ethaddr' env var.  the question is how 
does that get initialized ?  many boards have dedicated storage so that even 
if the env gets erased, the value can be recovered from elsewhere.  i guess 
this board doesn't have that redundancy ?
-mike
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