How to pass ethernet address to linux kernel ethernet driver

TI Davinci Ethernet driver

Passing fixed Ethernet MAC address

Run

cd $DEVDIR
make config

and set the Kernel Configuration -> Extra kernel arguments to

davinci_emac.ethaddr=40:61:86:e9:82:12

Using u-boot ethaddr value for fixed Ethernet MAC address

Modify installer (in installer/u-boot-installer/methods/attached_board), around like 973 to add the ethernet address to the kernel command line.

$BOOTCMD = "setenv bootargs ${bootargs} davinci_emac.ethaddr=${ethaddr} ; nboot $CONFIG_INSTALLER_LOAD_ADDRS 0 \\\${kerneloffset}";