Re: [E1000-devel] Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
Riku Voipio wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:23:06AM -0700, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > >> we don't want to support this in the default drivers, but maybe we could >> in the kernel with a Kconfig option that defaulted to off. > > This could be acceptable, we would only turn that option on the

Re: [E1000-devel] Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:23:06AM -0700, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > we don't officially support eepromless designs in our normal drivers > (most embedded users expect to modify their drivers). I know that there > is some test patches to allow the eepromless set up in our drivers, that > our TME t

RE: [E1000-devel] Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
Bill Gatliff wrote: > John Winters wrote: >> Bill Gatliff wrote: >> [snip] >>> The MAC Address will be reset to 00:00:00:00:00:00, which is invalid >>> and requires you to set the proper MAC address manually before >>> continuing >>> to enable this network device. the Linux kernel actually can ma