[U-Boot] [PATCH] Add PR1 Appliance - ISDN PRI board
Dimitar Penev
dpn at switchfin.org
Sat Nov 26 00:40:13 CET 2011
Hi Mike,
>>
>> 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 ?
Indeed, PR1 & BR4 Appliance don't keep MAC in a dedicated storage.
It is probably not a bad idea but at the moment we just use the u-boot
environment to store our parameters.
The 'ethaddr' variable is assigned manually by the person who test the
boards
Best Regards
Dimitar
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