From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe@larwe.com>
To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] network support
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:32:00 -0000
Message-id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010214123221.00b72780@larwe.com>
References: <3A8ABCAE.7A9655A5@larwe.com> <XFMail.20010214102507.gthomas@cambridge.redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00239.html

> > I thought the MAC address was factory-programmed into the EEPROM that's 
> attached to
> > the CS8900A Ethernet chip. Why does redboot require me to specify one 
> manually? (I
>
>The EEPROM isn't really supported (contributions welcome, of course) 
>because none
>of the boards provided to us by Cirrus Logic has working EEPROMs on 
>them.  In fact,

Tres bizarre!

Am I correct in assuming then that I can choose any value I like, as long 
as it's unique?

=== Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (Embedded Engineer)
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