On Friday 25 November 2011 16:54:29 Dimitar Penev wrote: > >On Sunday 20 November 2011 15:24:12 Dimitar Penev wrote: > >> I have noticed however that you have removed the random MAC generation > >> which I would consider as a good feature. > >> What is your reasoning behind this? > > > >MAC randomization should not be the default mode for boards. where does > >this board store its MAC address in general ? > > > >on the bf537-stamp, we use the last sector of the parallel flash to store > >the MAC so that it is saved across u-boot/linux updates and recovery. > > Currently we keep the MAC as u-boot variable 'ethaddr' and pass it to Linux > using the boot comand line.
right, generally all boards use the 'ethaddr' env var. the question is how does that get initialized ? many boards have dedicated storage so that even if the env gets erased, the value can be recovered from elsewhere. i guess this board doesn't have that redundancy ? -mike
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