what is your HW design about that? YH
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:00 PM > To: YhLu; [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] CK804 suggestions > > Your approach only allows the MAC address to be in the EEPROM > or the romstrap. Every motherboard would have to put the > EEPROM in exactly the same place for this to be a general > solution. Not likely. > Neither place is a general solution. > Getting the MAC address is board specific and belongs in mainboard. > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: YhLu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:37 PM > To: Ronald G. Minnich; Kimball, Stephen > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] CK804 suggestions > > don't need, > 1. good hw design should use one serial EEPROM to store MAC > address, So when flash the BIOS, the EEPROM is still there. > in ck804_nic.c will read MAC from serial EEPROM in > SMBUS (bus num and device num is set in Mainboard Config.lb), > at first. > 2. even for bad design, you can keep your own > romstrap.inc/lds in your mainboard dir, and modify Config.lb > to point corrent file. > In such case, you need special flash util to keep your > MAC address or read the MAC address at first, and then set it back.... > > YH > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:47 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: YhLu; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] CK804 suggestions > > > > > > > > On Tue, 17 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I'd like to suggest that the romstrap files be moved from > > southbridge > > > to mainboard, because the files are board specific with a > > default MAC > > > address. Also the ck804_nic.c files needs a mainboard specific > > > get_mac_address() that resides in mainboard. > > > > YhLu, can you fix this? it's a good point. > > > > ron > > > _______________________________________________ LinuxBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
