Some Linux drivers like the smc911x driver, as used on TQMA31, rely on the MAC address in the appropriate register, but U-Boot resets the controller after every transfer. A patch for the Linux driver is necessary to extract the MAC address from the kernel boot parameter line and set the MAC address register accordingly. This patch adds the kernel parameter "ethaddr" to the U-Boot default environment so that the user cannot forget it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Gehrlein sew_s@tqs.de ---
Replaced whitespaces by tab. Fixed typos in patch description.
include/configs/TQMA31.h | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/configs/TQMA31.h b/include/configs/TQMA31.h index c753ccc..f79cdd3 100644 --- a/include/configs/TQMA31.h +++ b/include/configs/TQMA31.h @@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ "console=ttymxc0,115200\0" \ "bootargs_nfs=setenv bootargs ${bootargs} " \ "root=/dev/nfs rw " \ + "ethaddr=${ethaddr} " \ "ip=${ipaddr}:${serverip}:${gatewayip}:" \ "${netmask}:${hostname}:${netdev}:off " \ "panic=1 " \