Hi,

First please forgive me for the cross-list post. I do believe this topic is related to both lists.

I'm playing with UBoot and Linux 2.6.10 on IBM PPC440GP evaluation board (Ebony) and have some issue with ethernet. With Rom Monitor linux 2.6.10 was running successfully using default configuration for Ebony. Here the scree dump for ethernet dection.

emac: IBM EMAC Ethernet driver, version 2.0 Maintained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org zmii0: input 0 in RMII mode eth0: IBM emac, MAC 00:04:ac:e3:1b:bb eth0: Found Generic MII PHY (0x08) zmii0: input 1 in RMII mode eth1: IBM emac, MAC 00:04:ac:e3:1b:bc eth1: Found Generic MII PHY (0x09)

However with Uboot, the emac driver cannot read MAC addresses from VPD correctly. The original 2.6.10 code didn't recognize uboot's bd_info. After some hack eth0 gets its MAC address from uboot's bd_info and seems initialized correctly. But somehow booting an NFS root fs failed. So I suspect it's due to the ethernet driver. BTW, the same image is used in the two

emac: IBM EMAC Ethernet driver, version 2.0 Maintained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org zmii0: input 0 in SMII mode eth0: IBM emac, MAC 00:04:ac:e3:1b:bb eth0: Found Generic MII PHY (0x08) zmii0: input 1 in RMII mode eth1: IBM emac, MAC FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF eth1: Found Generic MII PHY (0x09)

I know there was discussion about what a linux ethernet driver should expect from boot loader. In fact the driver shouldn't expect anything from a boot loader. Wolfgang has the same opinion in his DULG. What I don't know is if this EMAC driver expects something configured by boot loader? It seems to me that Rom Monitor did configure something for ethernet that the EMAC driver expected.

Anyone has the similar problem before?

Thanks, -Shawn.