Messages in this thread | | | From | Vineet Gupta <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARC: AXS10x/HSDK: Allow U-Boot to pass MAC-address to the kernel | Date | Thu, 2 Aug 2018 21:58:02 +0000 |
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On 08/02/2018 03:19 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > Otherwise kernel uses random MAC which is not very conveniet.
Curious what exactly is the issue - why does the user care what MAC is assigned ?
> With that change in place use might set desired MAC in U-Boot > with "setenv ethaddr 11:22:33:44:55:66", save environment and > then from boot to boot the same MAC will be used by the kernel. >
And what if one is running without uboot - it will resort to all zeros vs. random yet working MAC ?
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