In message 4073E36C.8000901@mpc-data.co.uk you wrote:
AFAICT from the source I'm using (1.0.2) none of the ethernet drivers bother with detecting their own MAC address (if available) and rather
Please explain what you mean by ".drivers...their own MAC address".
A driver does not have any MAC address.
Some ethernet devices may have persistent storage for a MAC address, but most of them (especially those in embedded processors) don't.
rely on hard/soft coded addresses. Is this an intentional by design, or just something unimplemented as yet? If this is something I can implement
It is intentional and necessary be design, because there simple _is_ _no_ stored MAC address anywhere around.
for our board here, does anyone have pointers for where is best to splice it in without upsetting anyone? :-) I already have a really untidy rough
Read the README, which documents what is beind done now, and follow the existing design rules (see section "Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces").
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk