Re: Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:59:06PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> What about stuffing an equivalent line into your initramfs?
>
> Something like:
>
> ip link set eth0 address 12:34:56:78:9a:bc
>
> (assuming you've got /bin/ip and dependencies -- i can't seem to make
> this work from busybox's implementation of ip)
Do you HAVE to have an initramfs? If the bootloader of the platform
correctly sets the MAC in the ethernet device, it would seem nice if the
driver would realize that and leave it alone. Or did I misunderstand
the issue and nothing on the platform contains a mac address?
--
Len Sorensen
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