From: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
To: "Kiran Kumar.A" <kiranf5@lycos.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Regarding booting 440 gr board / ibm emac driver
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:36:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051230183608.GA2376@gate.ebshome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051230112111.58191CA092@ws7-4.us4.outblaze.com>
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 06:21:11AM -0500, Kiran Kumar.A wrote:
> Hello Benjamin,
> This is kiran here. I'm working on 440GR (Yosemite) board to boot linux-2.6.13.4.
> Everything works fine execpt for MAC address. I saw the code in arch/ppc/platforms/4xx/yosemite.c; the code to copy the MAC addr from board info structure seems to be in place. I am using IBM emac driver written by you.
> Linux boots up fine and in the booting messages , I see that the MAC addr is displayed as all zeroes. Also, the ifconfig displays the MAC address as all zeroes.
>
> Could you please throw some light on the same.
First, check that the code which copies MAC address is actually
executed. Second, check _what_ is being copied by this code. Maybe
board info structure contains zeros.
> Do we need to modify the driver for MAC address issue??
No, you don't need to modify EMAC driver.
--
Eugene
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-30 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-30 11:21 Regarding booting 440 gr board / ibm emac driver Kiran Kumar.A
2005-12-30 18:36 ` Eugene Surovegin [this message]
2005-12-30 21:17 ` Wolfgang Denk
2005-12-31 12:14 ` Stefan Roese
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