
18 Jun
2003
18 Jun
'03
9:56 a.m.
Dear Richard,
in message FD2AC9A020DDD51194710008C7089B20053D4C87@dlee17.itg.ti.com you wrote:
Should u-boot define a standard way to override the mac address that an ethernet chip will use (if that chip allows it)? Back when I enabled the
There is already such a definition.
See the 3rd and following paragraphs in section "Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces" in the README (Text starting "If the network interface stores some valid MAC address...").
91c111 for my board, it took a couple of looks to notice that the ethaddr environment variable was not used by the driver...but it was for things like
Then the driver should be fixed.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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