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From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Alessandro Rubini <rubini-list@gnudd.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: changing environment at build time
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 15:22:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120803132216.GC23597@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120802155145.GA28426@mail.gnudd.com>

On 17:51 Thu 02 Aug     , Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm using barebox on a machine where I wasnt to change the mac address
> at flashing time (i.e., not at build time: I'd better not relink
> barebox every time I flash a new machine).
> 
> I did it lazily with a sed script when the environment was not
> compressed, but now a mate updated to a newer version, and the simple
> trick is not working.
> 
> Since uncompressed environent areas are not supported any more, what is
> the preferred method to change the default environment variables?
why do you need such feature?

why not just use the dhcp vendor option and manage the ip like this
and maybe you can generate the mac address by using the chip unique id

Best Regards
J.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-03 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-02 15:51 Alessandro Rubini
2012-08-02 20:22 ` Alessandro Rubini
2012-08-03 12:57   ` Sascha Hauer
2012-08-03 13:22 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]

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