Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
U-Boot has a number of network parameters like
CONFIG_HOSTNAME CONFIG_IPADDR CONFIG_GATEWAYIP CONFIG_NETMASK etc.
While these can be defined in an "include/configs/<board>.h", it would be nice to be able to define this in a separate file since they are really not board specific.
I agree that these don't belong in the board config file. In fact, I don't see why they should be board-specific at all. The U-Boot code in denx.de should have a config.h somewhere that specifies these, but we should probably not encourage board maintainers to have their own versions.
This would allow you to automatically analyse your machine to find out your host ipaddress, and add an appropriate ipaddr, netmask, gatewayip etc and overwrite the file with a custom default network configuration before you build.
I don't think it makes sense to claim that the network properties are somehow tied to a board. Are there boards out there that have to have certain IP addresses?