Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> [2008-03-31 21:33]: >> It also shows that the first characters on the device holding the >> environment are probably a crc32 checksum. >> >> Seems to me that this could be a cleaner solution than the current >> kernel patch. > > Well, the thing is that QNAP told me that it's dangerous to modify the > MTD partition holding the u-boot config. I don't think it's quite > that dangerous, especially if there's a tool, but at the same time I'd > definitely favour another solution if there is one... I agree. I can't see how it could be inherently dangerous. > And it seems there is one: the patch for the kernel to read the MAC > from flash got accepted today! OK. We could still use this for other purposes though, for example to set a better boot command (if needed). Cheers, FJP
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