Re: [PATCH v3] net: e1000e: add MAC address kernel cmd line parameter

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Feb 28 2019 - 10:33:12 EST


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 command-line
> parameter (macaddr).

Hi Flavio

Why not use device tree, since this is an ARM platform?

Andrew