In message BAY121-F10E8C00BC2499BA458BAC9C3770@phx.gbl you wrote:
There are many ways to set the MAC address with U-boot.
True. But the fact is, that U-Boot normally doies NOT set the MAC address at all - not unless it needs it for U-0Boot operations like network related commands.
you can hard code the MAC address in include/configs/xxx.h where xxx.h is your board configuration file.
I'm sorry, but thisis a really stupid idea. You will end up with many systems all using the same MAC address which is in violation of the standards and will cause lots of nasty trouble later.
DON'T DO THIS!
You can also develop command to accept the MAC address and put in EEPROM of MAC controller.
Of course. But please understand that this is not U-Boot's responsibility. It's a Linux driver issue.
From: "Jevgeni Zolotarjov" zhenja@zlo.ee To: u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [U-Boot-Users] MAC address setting Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 08:53:17 +0300
And please don't top post / full quote!!
See http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk