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authorBen Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>2010-04-26 11:11:46 -0700
committerBen Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>2010-05-03 14:52:49 -0700
commitecee9324d73555e744593f3e0d387bec4c566f55 (patch)
treee0ddc06decbe33b90c867d1751272e933f5e01ec /README
parentc960b13ed22d9ea570957379f9f7f2f37d87ef08 (diff)
Program net device MAC addresses after initializing
Add a new function to the eth_device struct for programming a network controller's hardware address. After all network devices have been initialized and the proper MAC address for each has been determined, make a device driver call to program the address into the device. Only device instances with valid unicast addresses will be programmed. Signed-off-by: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com> Acked-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> Tested-by: Prafulla Wadaskar <prafulla@marvell.com> Tested-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de> Tested-by: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
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@@ -3303,6 +3303,11 @@ o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
is raised.
+If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
+will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
+may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
+The naming convention is as follows:
+"ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
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