I too am new in this field but working on same thing but on
IXP420
Platform for Router board.
Hi,
I was able to get the U-boot to show the console right. I took the old modified version, compared to same unmodified version and made the changed to latest version. Sounds complicated. ;)
Only thing that I was unable to get to work was network. I have applied the Intel microcode stuff version 2.3(should it be version 2.4 which is the latest?). I have also copied the network settings from ixpg425.h
I did some digging and noticed that default environment variable weren't set correctly. Network device were missing its MAC address. I did some quick'n'dirty tests and set the MAC address where it was checked and was able to continue the network init. Next error was:
Error downloading firmware to NPE-B!
FeatureCtrlDevice is 0 and Stepping is 1. Only first Ethernet port is configured in use (CONFIG_HAS_ETH1 is not set) although hardware has both ports.
Any idea what might be wrong? Or is it related somehow to that environment problem? I have following defines in include/configs/ixpd425.h
#define CONFIG_ETHADDR 18:20:3e:26:0a:5b #define CONFIG_ETH1ADDR 18:20:3e:26:0a:5c #define CONFIG_NETMASK 255.255.255.0 #define CONFIG_IPADDR 192.168.11.201 #define CONFIG_SERVERIP 192.168.11.10
#define CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND "cp.b 0x500a0000 1700000 0x17FFFF; bootm 1700000" #define CONFIG_BOOTARGS "<mybootargsremoved>"
Only the bootargs gets defined correctly to environment variables
- Teemu K.