Re: [U-Boot] at91sam9g20 MAC address in EEPROM?

2010-09-18 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Reinhard Meyer, In message <4c600c3d.3060...@emk-elektronik.de> you wrote: > > > We're not concerned about u-boot's environment not being reliable, we just > > want the ability to completely erase the nand without worrying about losing > > essential data (like a MAC address). I suppose we

Re: [U-Boot] at91sam9g20 MAC address in EEPROM?

2010-08-09 Thread Reinhard Meyer
Dear Jim Sheldon, >> May I ask WHY you are not comfortable with using the U-Boot >> environment? Usually it's a very convenient place to store >> configuration data, and a pretty reliable one (especially when you >> use redundant environment). > > We're not concerned about u-boot's environment not

Re: [U-Boot] at91sam9g20 MAC address in EEPROM?

2010-08-09 Thread Jim Sheldon
Hello Mr. Denk, > -Original Message- > From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:w...@denx.de] > Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 4:00 PM > To: Jim Sheldon > Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] at91sam9g20 MAC address in EEPROM? > > Dear Jim

Re: [U-Boot] at91sam9g20 MAC address in EEPROM?

2010-08-07 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jim Sheldon, In message <7941e07e1e020448937aca7d4279e6327bac64e...@powerhog> you wrote: > > > I am working on a product based on Atmel's sam9g20. Atmel's flashing > procedure stores the MAC address as a u-boot environment variable (ethaddr). > > We are not comfortable with storing the MA

Re: [U-Boot] at91sam9g20 MAC address in EEPROM?

2010-07-10 Thread Reinhard Meyer
Jim Sheldon wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am working on a product based on Atmel's sam9g20. Atmel's flashing > procedure stores the MAC address as a u-boot environment variable (ethaddr). > > We are not comfortable with storing the MAC address this way, and would > rather keep it in EEPROM. Do

Re: [U-Boot] at91sam9g20 MAC address in EEPROM?

2010-07-10 Thread Timur Tabi
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Jim Sheldon wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am working on a product based on Atmel's sam9g20.  Atmel's flashing > procedure stores the MAC address as a u-boot environment variable (ethaddr). > > We are not comfortable with storing the MAC address this way, and woul

[U-Boot] at91sam9g20 MAC address in EEPROM?

2010-07-10 Thread Jim Sheldon
Hello everyone, I am working on a product based on Atmel's sam9g20. Atmel's flashing procedure stores the MAC address as a u-boot environment variable (ethaddr). We are not comfortable with storing the MAC address this way, and would rather keep it in EEPROM. Does anyone have experience with