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From: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:43:12 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] net,
 kirkwood_egiga: init mac address before using network commands
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:38:39 +0200
Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de> wrote:

> initialize mac address with the value from "ethaddr", before
> doing some network commands. This is not in line with u-boot
> design principle "not to initalize not used devices", and
> maybe should go away, if there is a solution for passing
> the mac address to arm linux kernels.

I also tried this change half a year ago, but it got NACK:ed. The
discussion is here if you are interested:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg16994.html

// Simon