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| author | Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com> | 2010-04-26 11:11:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com> | 2010-05-03 14:52:49 -0700 |
| commit | ecee9324d73555e744593f3e0d387bec4c566f55 (patch) | |
| tree | e0ddc06decbe33b90c867d1751272e933f5e01ec /README | |
| parent | c960b13ed22d9ea570957379f9f7f2f37d87ef08 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -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. Image Formats: ============== |