initialize mac address with the value from "ethaddr", before
doing some network commands. This is not in line with u-boot
design principle "not to initalize not used devices", and
maybe should go away, if there is a solution for passing
the mac address to arm linux kernels.

Tested on the suen3 board.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <h...@denx.de>
---
posting this patch as a result of this discussion:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-March/069025.html

 drivers/net/kirkwood_egiga.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/kirkwood_egiga.c b/drivers/net/kirkwood_egiga.c
index 2ad7fea..e8b3777 100644
--- a/drivers/net/kirkwood_egiga.c
+++ b/drivers/net/kirkwood_egiga.c
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ int kirkwood_egiga_initialize(bd_t * bis)
                        return -1;
                }

-               while (!eth_getenv_enetaddr(s, dev->enetaddr)) {
+               if (!eth_getenv_enetaddr(s, dev->enetaddr)) {
                        /* Generate Random Private MAC addr if not set */
                        dev->enetaddr[0] = 0x02;
                        dev->enetaddr[1] = 0x50;
@@ -688,6 +688,7 @@ int kirkwood_egiga_initialize(bd_t * bis)
                        dev->enetaddr[5] = get_random_hex();
                        eth_setenv_enetaddr(s, dev->enetaddr);
                }
+               port_uc_addr_set(dkwgbe->regs, dev->enetaddr);

                dev->init = (void *)kwgbe_init;
                dev->halt = (void *)kwgbe_halt;
-- 
1.6.2.5

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