Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Changing ethernet MAC for production(speeding up the process)

[hoefle marco <marco.hoefle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 18:53 +1000, John Williams wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:21 PM, hoefle
> marco<marco.hoefle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> > From: hoefle marco [mailto:marco.hoefle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]:
> >> > When ethaddr and macaddr are set correctly the ethernet lite driver
> >> > should use the "new" mac address, right?
> >> Yes, the bootloader will pass your edited flash data to the kernel as command-line parameters.
> >> You must tweek the CRC checksum of the flash data to avoid the CRC failure. Then you edited data will be accepted when the bootloader reads the flash sector.
> >> CU, Falk
> >
> 
> > Petalinux is using mtdblock3 as "config". I want to get rid of that
> > partition but it would be good to know first what its for :-)
> 
> The flatfsd daemon, enabled by default, uses /dev/flash/config as
> backing store for the RAM based filesystem mounted at /etc/config
> 
> This is a simple, robust way of having persistent, writeable files in
> /etc (often just symlink /etc/XXXX to /etc/config/XXXX).
> 
> You can get rid of the config partition, but you'll have  to disable
> flatfsd in your user build.  There may be some other dependnecies as
> well, for example in the u-boot config scripts where we generate MTD
> partition info.
Hello John,
That is quite usefull indeed. One ls -al in /etc could have explained
that :-)
I will use /etc/config/start for launching our application specific
things.
Thanks,
Marco


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