Thank you very much for your advice. That's a very nice approach. We will try this in our next version.
2010/2/9 Aras Vaichas <ar...@magellan-technology.com>: >>> There are many ways to install a MAC into your hardware -without >>> hard-conding one into your image code. >>> >>>> Because of the quantity of the boards comparing with the number of workers, >>>> we can not set the MAC address by hand. So what I means is to make the > > Our Linux devices all have an I2C EEPROM memory chip on board. > > Once the production electrical/smoke test is complete, this memory > chip is programmed with SDRAM timings, SDRAM bus width, a unique MAC > address and a unique serial number for the board. We use an external > programming device to achieve this. > > This way we have a log of every MAC address and the serial number of > the device to which it belongs. > > The first stage bootloader reads the SDRAM timings from the EEPROM, > sets up the SDRAM, then copies U-Boot into SDRAM and then executes it. > > U-Boot then reads the MAC address from the EEPROM and programs it into the > PHY. > > Aras > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
