On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:31:52AM -0700, Steve Sakoman wrote: > >> How did you set this MAC address? Does the hardware read it from a > >> connected EEPROM or did you manually set it in your environment. > > It is manually set in the environment since the prototype hardware > doesn't have the eeprom.
Assuming you're going to boot Linux on that board, you will face the next problem that U-Boot will reset the controller before the kernel boots and thus vanishes the MAC address from the chip. I sent in another patch for that which contionally disables this reset so that the Linux driver can actually read the address again and use it (with the SMSC911X_SAVE_MAC_ADDRESS flag set). But as Mike Frysinger pointed out, this is not the intended way to go as the MAC is only programmed if U-Boot ever performed any network transaction. So there is need for some other approach, just wanted to let you know. Daniel _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
