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From: elison.niven at gmail.com <elison.niven@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:24:24 +0530
Subject: [U-Boot] Generating random numbers
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Tue Aug 30 23:48:41, Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net wrote:
> This differs from your use case which apparently is "use a random MAC so
> that with some yet-undefined mechanism we can ask for a real MAC because
> we don't want to set the real MAC in the environment" -- to me it looks
> not like a degenerate case but a nominal use case.

How am I supposed to set the real MAC in the environment? Build
separate images for each board? I do not want that.

> Now I may have misunderstood your case, of course. Feel free to provide
> more context.
I think I have pretty much summarized it in the first mail of this thread.

Thanks,
Elison