Dear DUNDA Matthias,
In message 13246_1290092163_4CE53E83_13246_17888_1_3CF34B583782C147807E09365F884DA42F058FE233@THSNCOA06MXS02P.ONE-06.GRP you wrote:
What's the intended/desired function of ethact, and how should it be
initialized? Even using CONFIG_ETHPRIME has no effect.
These variabes are documented in the README.
Yes, I read that! That's why I used CONFIG_ETHPRIME in my board header file to do the trick - maybe my env was corrupted, or something - I don't know, why it didn't show up by default... I had to setenv it by hand.
CONFIG_ETHPRIME affects only your _default_ envrionment, i. e. what gets used when the normal environment is not available for some reason (like corrupted). As long as it remains valid, installing a new U-Boot image with additional settings in the _default_ environment will not change anything as the default environment never gets referenced.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk