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

[Tom Rini]

On 07/14/2011 09:17 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> 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.

I know we mentioned this on IRC, but why not just ask the user to
upgrade U-Boot?  This isn't a bleeding edge board so that shouldn't be
difficult...

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation