[Celinux-dev] Setting the MAC address at boot time (ASCII)

[EXTERNAL Brunner Markus (Praktikant; ST-FIR/Eng)]

> Depending on your boot loader you can pass this information for
> example on the command line.

It's a SH3 board, which has no bios, or bootloader. 
The kernel and initrd is loaded with a JTAG-debugger. 
The command line is set by writing to the memory location where the
kernel expects it.
Not as nice and powerfull as uboot ;)






> You might like to try the attached patch which we use. It adds a
command
> line option which allows you to say things like:
>  nwhwconf=device:eth0,hwaddr:12:34:56:78:90:ab
> It does rely on the network device supporting the ethtool interface
> however.

This patch is what I was looking for. Thanks a lot. 
Are there plans to bring it into vanilla, or will it stay out-off-tree?


Thanks,

Markus