> >> > Hi Flavio
> >> >
> >> > u-boot should be able to write the MAC address in the correct part of
> >> > device tree. Boards have been doing this a long time.
> >> >
> >> > Module parameters are considered bad. You should only do it if you
> >> > have no other option. Here you do have another op
From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 20:29:58 +0100
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 05:13:27PM +, Flavio Suligoi wrote:
>> > > Hi Andrew,
>> > >
>> > > we produce a lot of boards and we have to change the MAC address,
>> > > from u-boot, for every board. So I must save in the u-boot
>> > > env
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 05:13:27PM +, Flavio Suligoi wrote:
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > >
> > > we produce a lot of boards and we have to change the MAC address,
> > > from u-boot, for every board. So I must save in the u-boot
> > > environment (SPI NOR flash) the MAC address for every board.
> >
>
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > we produce a lot of boards and we have to change the MAC address,
> > from u-boot, for every board. So I must save in the u-boot
> > environment (SPI NOR flash) the MAC address for every board.
>
> Hi Flavio
>
> u-boot should be able to write the MAC address in the correct
> Hi Andrew,
>
> we produce a lot of boards and we have to change the MAC address,
> from u-boot, for every board. So I must save in the u-boot
> environment (SPI NOR flash) the MAC address for every board.
Hi Flavio
u-boot should be able to write the MAC address in the correct part of
device t
> -Original Message-
> From: Andrew Lunn
> Sent: giovedì 28 febbraio 2019 16:33
> To: Flavio Suligoi
> Cc: Jeff Kirsher ; David S . Miller
> ; intel-wired-...@lists.osuosl.org;
> netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net:
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 02:52:31PM +0100, Flavio Suligoi wrote:
> Sometimes, in some embedded systems boards (i.e. ARM boards),
> the NVM eeprom is not mounted, to save cost and space.
>
> In this case it is necessary to bypass the NVM management
> and directly force the MAC address using a kernel
