Dear Tom,
In message 1889944.1637219294@gemini.denx.de I wrote:
We're about to introduce the 3rd variant. I'd feel a whole lot better about taking in a v2 of this patch that correct the help (and maybe updates doc/README.enetaddr!) if someone could report back on what's going on with the layerscape, imx* and socfpga platforms. There's in fact a number of platforms enabling it that I'm pretty sure DENX has or had the hardware on, so can we get some spot checking done there?
I will check and provide an update later, but from the best of my knowledge none of the boards we ported actually need or use this feature. This is just a copy&paste mess.
We could not find even a single board maintained or upstreamed by DENX where NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR was even mentioned in the specifications, and certainly not a mandatory feature.
That's all copy & paste garbage.
Viele Grüße,
Wolfgang Denk