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| author | Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com> | 2015-05-04 14:55:14 -0500 |
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| committer | Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com> | 2015-05-19 13:33:21 -0500 |
| commit | 92ac520821405e196c920d60921bdfa5ab6b878c (patch) | |
| tree | 64331eefb4a40a516281e4c9938c40953781c6bf /examples/standalone/README.smc91111_eeprom | |
| parent | bef1014b31c5b33052bcaa865ba3618d73e906f0 (diff) | |
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net: Remove all references to CONFIG_ETHADDR and friends
We really don't want boards defining fixed MAC addresses in their config
so we just remove the option to set it in a fixed way. If you must have
a MAC address that was not provisioned, then use the random MAC address
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/examples/standalone/README.smc91111_eeprom b/examples/standalone/README.smc91111_eeprom index a2d52e7..f73a8d3 100644 --- a/examples/standalone/README.smc91111_eeprom +++ b/examples/standalone/README.smc91111_eeprom @@ -27,29 +27,6 @@ To find out who has a MAC address, or to purchase MAC addresses, goto the IEEE, at: http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml -To change your MAC address, there can not be a MAC address predefined in -U-Boot. To ensure that this does not occur, check your -include/configs/<board_name>.h file, and check to see that the following -settings are _not_ or commented out there. - -#define HARDCODE_MAC 1 -#define CONFIG_ETHADDR 02:80:ad:20:31:b8 - -The purpose of HARDCODE_MAC is to hardcode the MAC address in software, -(not what we want), or to preset it to 02:80:ad:20:31:b8 (not what we -want either). - -You can check this in a running U-Boot, by doing a power cycle, then -before U-Boot tries to do any networking, running the 'printenv' command - - BOOT> printenv - - ethaddr=02:80:ad:20:31:b8 - -If you see the 'ethaddr' variable show up, like the above, you need to -recompile U-Boot, with the above settings commented out of the -include/configs/<board_name>.h file. - 2. Running the smc91111_eeprom program --------------------------------------------------------------------- |