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

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com> wrote:
> 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...

That's definitely the right solution, and the one that I'm talking about again
via the bug/email.  The only reason we are not quite there yet, is due to
an unfortunate board bricking episode. Once we've got jtag and a few minutes,
we'll revisit the u-boot update (it should be trivial) and once confirmed simply
go with that.

So that being said, I'm definitely leaning away from any patches like this, just
so we don't have anything to undo once later.

Cheers,

Bruce

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