On Monday 08 November 2010 15:30:44 Peter Stuge wrote: > Harald Gutmann wrote: > > Just for my personal interest, could someone explain me what > > actually is called romstrap? > > It's a horrible name for permanent settings that are stored in the > boot flash. I thought that these things are permanently stored. But is it just a name for fixed values in the flash, or do those values need to be stored at a "special" address in the flash?
> > > Is there any fast method to read the onboards NIC mac address "faster"? > > ip l sh eth0|grep link/ether|awk '{print $2}' I know that this is possible via commands on the shell, but you can't be sure that you select the onboard NIC with that method, because when a second NIC is used in that board on PCI this one could also be eth0, and therefore you could end up with the wrong one getting copied. > > > //Peter Regards, Harald -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot