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-rw-r--r--doc/uImage.FIT/multi.its4
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diff --git a/doc/README.enetaddr b/doc/README.enetaddr
index 1d75aa3876e..94d800a02ae 100644
--- a/doc/README.enetaddr
+++ b/doc/README.enetaddr
@@ -28,6 +28,17 @@ Here are the places where MAC addresses might be stored:
purpose of passing this information to an OS kernel we are about
to boot
+Correct flow of setting up the MAC address (summarized):
+
+1. Read from hardware in initialize() function
+2. Read from environment in net/eth.c after initialize()
+3. Give priority to the value in the environment if a conflict
+4. Program hardware in the device's init() function.
+
+If somebody wants to subvert the design philosophy, this can be done
+in the board-specific board_eth_init() function by calling eth_init()
+after all the NICs have been registered.
+
-------
Usage
-------
diff --git a/doc/uImage.FIT/multi.its b/doc/uImage.FIT/multi.its
index a120da038f5..881b74952d1 100644
--- a/doc/uImage.FIT/multi.its
+++ b/doc/uImage.FIT/multi.its
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@
arch = "ppc";
os = "linux";
compression = "gzip";
+ load = <00000000>;
+ entry = <00000000>;
hash@1 {
algo = "sha1";
};
@@ -73,6 +75,8 @@
arch = "ppc";
os = "linux";
compression = "gzip";
+ load = <00000000>;
+ entry = <00000000>;
hash@1 {
algo = "crc32";
};