13 Mar
2009
13 Mar
'09
10:49 a.m.
Yes we can, but it is safer this way in the case when ethernet address spans across two chips. Rest of comments addressed in version 7 of the patch which will be sent soon.
Is such a scenario (MAC address split across 2 different EEPROM devices) possible (and supported) on these systems?
I think it is possible, cause whole eeprom is threated as a one continuous area. Moreover, this function is called only if ethaddr environment variable is not set, so not very often. I don't think optimizing it is worth risk of reading incorrect ethernet address.
regards, Grzesiek