[U-Boot] Ethernet not working on OMAP3 board with

Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-18T08:33:23Z

Dear Matthias Ludwig,

In message <20090518081724.GA19305@ultratronik.de> you wrote:
> Dear Mani,
>
> > I was testing the latest tip of u-boot and v2009.06-rc1,
> > I find that the Ethernet is not working.
>
> i assume you are using a board with SMSC911x ethernet chip? If so, this
> discussion may help you:
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-April/050687.html
>
> SMSC911x (and others) do not work in mainline if no eeprom with MAC
> address is present. A patch solving this issue is (afaik) in net/next.
>
> @Wolfgang/Ben: shouldn't this be in 2009.6?

I consider this a bug fix for 2009.06. Ben?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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