Dear Prabhakar, In message <he1pr04mb12410876e4ba09fc9cd7800c97...@he1pr04mb1241.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> you wrote: > > Why ROM MAC address getting overwritten by environment env MAC address.
Because in U-Boot we give the user the freedom to do what he needs/wants to do. Usually the environment value gets initialized from the value in the ROM, so there is no difference anyway. But if the user wants a specific setting, he can change it. > MAC address is something unique and assigned to a particular device. So one > should never change its MAC address. U-Boot follows good old UNIX style here: "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] If in any problem you find yourself doing an immense amount of work, the answer can be obtained by simple inspection. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
