Andrew,
--- Andrew Dyer amdyer@gmail.com wrote:
I have a board similar to the scb9328 that I'm working on a port to. I tried compiling a recent version of u-boot for the scb9328 target and it fails with a linker error (see below). The source was pulled from git on Feb. 10, 2007. compiler is from arm ELDK-4.0
Adding a define for CONFIG_NET_MULTI in the board config file makes the compile succeed. I don't actually have an scb9328 (or my new board yet) so I can't test it.
Is CONFIG_NET_MULTI pretty much mandatory? If so, why even have it as an option?
Yeah, for most recent ethernet devices it's more-or-less mandatory. If you look in 'net/eth.c' you'll see that many of the newer drivers only have their code within the confines of #ifdef CONFIG_NET_MULTI. This code needs an overhaul, and for other reasons too, but as with much of U-boot it has to be done very carefully to ensure backwards-compatibility.
regards, Ben