Dear Michael, In message <201203272255.59259.mich...@walle.cc> you wrote: > > Wolfgang, what do you think about relaxing this policy a bit and allowing > this > class of devices (no service port/serial port available, no storage for the > MAC address besides the environment) to use hardcoded values (maybe defined > in > a place common to all boards). Again, i don't think my device is the only one > with this problem.
Probably it is not the only device, but eventually all the others found other working solutions? I still fail to understand why you would need fixed network settings. Evenin emergency cases, the only parameter you really need is a MAC address, all others can be fetched for example from a DHCP server. As for the MAC address, it is in such emergencies OK to use a random locally administered Ethernet address. Note the "random" - hard- coding the same address for all devices is definitely a No-Go. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Disc space - the final frontier! _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
