Re: [PATCH] ARC: AXS10x/HSDK: Allow U-Boot to pass MAC-address to the kernel

[Vineet Gupta]

On 08/02/2018 03:19 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> Otherwise kernel uses random MAC which is not very conveniet.

Curious what exactly is the issue - why does the user care what MAC is assigned ?

> With that change in place use might set desired MAC in U-Boot
> with "setenv ethaddr 11:22:33:44:55:66", save environment and
> then from boot to boot the same MAC will be used by the kernel.
>

And what if one is running without uboot - it will resort to all zeros vs. random
yet working MAC ?