Changing Mac address
    Grant Likely 
    grant.likely at secretlab.ca
       
    Tue Jul 29 02:24:45 EST 2008
    
    
  
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:25:54PM +0200, Guillaume Dargaud wrote:
> Hello all,
> there's something I miss here. I'd like to setup a MAC address in 
> software at the start of the boot process. I'm trying to figure out where 
> this is done in the kernel code.
> I'm on a custom variant of a Xilinx ML405 card, still in PPC arch.
> So it appears to be going in the arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.c 
Yes, this is the correct location to set it.  Do whatever you need to
set a different MAC address.
In arch/powerpc this all goes away and you can just set it in the device
tree.
g.
    
    
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