[U-Boot] setting Ethernet address

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Benedict Hewson,

In message <4458778.Fr6NCEssuz at desktop1> you wrote:
>
> yes using setenv ethaddr and setenv ipaddr allows me to ping other computers 
> and to ping the board. 

Good.

> I was wondering why if I try to set ethaddr as part of 
> CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS it is not there when I boot the board.

This would define it only in the default environment (and doing this is
strongly deprecated and will never be accepted for mainline), but it
does not influence your current environment settings.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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