From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Gary Thomas <gthomas@cambridge.redhat.com>
To: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe@larwe.com>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] network support
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:25:00 -0000
Message-id: <XFMail.20010214102507.gthomas@cambridge.redhat.com>
References: <3A8ABCAE.7A9655A5@larwe.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00238.html

On 14-Feb-2001 Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
> Hello Gary,
> 
> 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
> have no idea what it is). If I put some garbage into that field, will redboot only
> store that in its own local config info, or will it also trash the EEPROM that's on
> the Crystal chip?
> 

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,
the boards I have have a totally incorrect chip soldered where the EEPROM belongs :-(