svn commit: r220260 - head/sys/mips/atheros

[Juli Mallett]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 20:48, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: adrian
> Date: Sat Apr  2 03:48:15 2011
> New Revision: 220260
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/220260
>
> Log:
>  A handful of the openwrt devices use a MAC address that's at a hard-coded
>  offset in the flash.
>
>  Some devices (eg the TPLink WR-1043ND) don't have a flash environment
>  partition which can be queried for the current board settings.
>
>  This particular workaround allows for image creators to use a hint
>  to set the base MAC address. For example:
>
>  hint.arge.0.eeprommac=0x1f01fc00

It isn't obvious from the wording here that it's the address of the
MAC in flash, it sounds like it's the base MAC-address.  Might be
useful to add "phys" or "pa" or something to suggest that it's a
physical address in RAM.