Re: [U-Boot-Users] MAC address setting

In message 44ACCBE1.32244.109A0E@mircofuchs.web.de you wrote:

initialize this correctly, but this is obviously not the case. I worked around this problem by doing a ping manually before booting linux or by inserting the eth_init() function call in start_armboot().

I just want to point out that this is a really bad idea. Instead, you should fixe the problem where it existis, i. e. in the Linux driver. If you want, implement a way to pass the MAC address from U-Boot to Linux, either as a boot argument or by your platform-specific way of passing such parameters [I never understood why nobody came up with an ATAG for the MAC address yet. But maybe this would just be too simple.]

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk