On Wed 8 Jul 2009 14:50, Robin Getz pondered:

Linux's netconsole works much better when you can pass it the MAC address of the server. (otherwise it just uses broadcast, which everyone else on my network complains about :)

This sets the evn var "serveraddr" (to match ethaddr), so that you can pass it to linux with whatever bootargs you want to....

addnetconsole=set bootargs $(bootargs) netconsole=@$(ipaddr)/eth0,@$(serverip)/$(serveraddr)

I'm sure this is white space damaged - but you get the idea...

Wolfgang - did you want me to push this through the Blackfin tree (via Mike) or wait for Ben?

Index: net/net.c

--- net/net.c (revision 1961) +++ net/net.c (working copy) @@ -1273,6 +1273,15 @@ /* are we waiting for a reply */ if (!NetArpWaitPacketIP || !NetArpWaitPacketMAC) break;

+#ifdef CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR

•                   if (NetServerIP == NetArpWaitPacketIP) {
  

•                           char buf[20];
  

•                           sprintf(buf, "%pM", arp->ar_data);
  

•                           setenv("serveraddr", buf);
  

•                   }
  

+#endif

#ifdef ET_DEBUG printf("Got ARP REPLY, set server/gtwy eth addr (%pM)\n", arp->ar_data) _______________________________________________