
30 Mar
2010
30 Mar
'10
9:43 a.m.
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:38:39 +0200 Heiko Schocher hs@denx.de wrote:
initialize mac address with the value from "ethaddr", before doing some network commands. This is not in line with u-boot design principle "not to initalize not used devices", and maybe should go away, if there is a solution for passing the mac address to arm linux kernels.
I also tried this change half a year ago, but it got NACK:ed. The discussion is here if you are interested:
http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg16994.html
// Simon