On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Tabi Timur-B04825 <b04...@freescale.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote: > >> And please add documentation for the new CONFIG_PRESERVE_LOCAL_MAC to >> the README. > > We have something similar already on Freescale parts, but it does > sometimes cause problems. If the environment ethaddr is already set, > it is left alone. Otherwise, the MAC address is read from EEPROM. > > So we could use CONFIG_PRESERVE_LOCAL_MAC to alter this behavior (i.e. > always use the EEPROM). However, the current default is already > CONFIG_PRESERVE_LOCAL_MAC, so can we change this to something like > CONFIG_OVERRIDE_LOCAL_MAC?
I don't think the option you want is the same. If there's a MAC in the environment, I want to use it. Otherwise, I want U-Boot to leave the MAC alone because the manufacturer assigned MAC was written to the interface's registers before U-Boot started. Michael _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot