Dear Jayakumar A,
Please restrict your line length to some 70 characters or so. Thanks.
In message 3D423A5438408C4EA43DA95D38F9989B7C9B6ED0ED@EXCHINDMAIL.patni.com you wrote:
I was going through the mail chain of "passing MAC address to Linux kernel "( http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg09312. html) and found you could be of great help in helping our issue.
This information is 4 years old and obsolete.
We wish to set the ipaddress on the ARM-9 board retrieving from a particula r file and start the network services:
If you are talk about "retrieve from a file" you probably mean under Linux? That should be trivial to implement.
In U-Boot, we use the environment to store MAC addresses.
We are using FreeScaleArm9 board and to statically set the system we have f lashed the kernel(linux-2.6.31) on NAND Flash with DHCP off. As per ltib settings it says: to have static ip-settings, either set the ip -address while configuring LTIB or change in the file /etc/rc.d/rc.conf.
This is all Linux stuff and off topic here. Also, LTIB is Freesale's code, so please ask Freescale support about it.
If you could please share some information regarding the static -ip setting s and starting network serives it should be of great help.
It is totally unclear to me what you are actually asking 0 it seems you confuse MAC and IP addresses at a pretty much fundamental level. In any case, you appear to refer to Linux configuration, which is off topic here.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk