On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:00:40PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 08 April 2009 07:23:39 Daniel Mack wrote: > > On boards without EEPROMs, don't reset the chip on U-Boot's exit so that > > the MAC set by environment settings can be used by the OS later. > > that isnt how the MAC is passed to the OS ... this change is incorrect > > the OS must be able to get the MAC address regardless of the state of the > network controller
Not if the MAC is stored in the volatile smc911x registers. Issuing a soft reset flushes these values - if U-Boot does that, the OS has no change getting them. That's what I saw here and it is also stated in the datasheet. Daniel _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
