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| author | Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang@samsung.com> | 2010-05-31 09:13:11 +0900 |
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| committer | Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang@samsung.com> | 2010-05-31 09:13:11 +0900 |
| commit | 922d27b596c179c5a7d68abe45ede5adb1b6589c (patch) | |
| tree | c5ef3d5dc70bf51646a7fd7a379f6c2b2588cc2e /doc/README.enetaddr | |
| parent | de200874fb9ecac51d74b4e9783ebb5d2e94c449 (diff) | |
| parent | 39c209546ab5b11ca6410c5cc57dcbf457e50800 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-arm
Conflicts:
arch/arm/include/asm/mach-types.h
Signed-off-by: Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang@samsung.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/README.enetaddr')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.enetaddr | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.enetaddr b/doc/README.enetaddr index 94d800a02a..2d8e24f5cb 100644 --- a/doc/README.enetaddr +++ b/doc/README.enetaddr @@ -33,11 +33,13 @@ 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. +4. Program the address into hardware if the following conditions are met: + a) The relevant driver has a 'write_addr' function + b) The user hasn't set an 'ethmacskip' environment variable + c) The address is valid (unicast, not all-zeros) -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. +Previous behavior had the MAC address always being programmed into hardware +in the device's init() function. ------- Usage |
