At Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:38 PM Wolfgang Denk wrote: [snip]

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I have had a few beta users who had to change the MAC address, (to get DHCP working on their networks)

Why do you need to change a MAC address to get DHCP working??? I never heard such a thing before - of course I assume that you are distributing your boxes with valid MAC addresses only!?

The MAC addresses that I ship are valid MAC addresses - it was that their DHCP server, only gave IP addresses to "valid" machines on their network (valid = machines that the net admin knew about and wanted on the network). Since they were hacking on this they did the best thing they could - they unplugged the Windows machine, and stole it's MAC address, so their DHCP server would give them an IP number that their routers liked.

Such functionality has been added before, but not as (statically linked) part of U-Boot. Please see examples/82559_eeprom.c and examples/eepro100_eeprom.c for examples.

OK - I guess that is what I was looking for. If I made a smc91111_eeprom.c, would you accept that back into the examples, and if someone wanted to change it, they could do it from there?

I guess I really didn't look in the examples dir. In the README, it says there are two simple examples - it didn't mention that there were complex ones to :)

I will not allow such dirty hacks in the public U-Boot source tree.

This is the reason I asked before I started coding - My five favorite words "architect, design, implement, test, ship".

Thanks for the pointers - I will see what I can get from the examples dir.

-Robin