TEMAC MAC address

[David H. Lynch Jr.]

Grant Likely wrote:
> On 7/11/07, Kevin Holland <KHollan at daktronics.com> wrote:
>   
>> Grant,
>>  How do I set the MAC address?
>>     
>
> Badly, with an ugly hack.  :-)
>
>   
>> When my ML410 board boots its Hardware
>> address is set to 0.  I looked through the message boards and can't seem
>> to find what Im looking for.  Thanks for your help.
>>     
>
> I set the mac addr with some Virtex specific code in
> arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.c.
>
> BTW, Please at least CC: the mailing list when asking questions.
>   

Pico cards pass the MAC address to linux via the board info struct -
doesn't uboot etc.
have a similar facility ?

Pico registered a block of MAC addresses, uses them as card serial
numbers and passes them via
board info.


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