Dear Wolfgang Denk,
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
setenv affects only the U-Boot environment variables. It doe snot program any device registers for you.
And PLEASE: restrict your line length to 70 characters or less.
Nfs works only with the ugly code that was removed.
I'm spinning in a circle :(
Please read the previous postings, and the FAQ.
I read the arm-linux mailing lists and I saw similar discussions there. Now it's clear to me that u-boot shouldn't initialize the EMAC (MACB) registers with the MAC address. In the newer kernel releases ( 2.6.26 or newer ) there is a fix for the MACB driver and it can be used for boards that do not store their MAC address in a nonvolatile memory like an EEPROM.
Thank you for your time and quick response to questions.
Please consider the u-boot patch from the previous post for the next merge window.
Best regards,
Cristian Birsan