[poky] [PATCH 1/2] linux-yocto: allow configuration of MAC addresses for mpc8315e-rdb

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Thu Jul 14 09:17:19 PDT 2011


On Thursday 14 July 2011 16:57:42 Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> The change looks fine, in the sense that it'll work, but it's a lot of
> hoops to jump through for the mac address. In the past, we've solved this
> by allowing the mac address to be specified via the bootline, which we
> could then simply drop into the boot environment and have it work more
> easily.
> 
> I didn't think of this when we were talking about this issue, but now that
> I see the change ... it's been faulted into the right memory banks.
> 
> I'll dig up these patches, and we can take them for a spin and hopefully we
> can drop this part of the series.

If we have a better solution that would make things easier for the user I'd 
definitely prefer it over this.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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