[U-Boot] DM9000 issue in DM355

Paulraj, Sandeep s-paulraj at ti.com
Tue Oct 20 17:46:59 CEST 2009


Stefano,
> 
> Paulraj, Sandeep wrote:
> > Ben,
> >
> Hi,
> 
> > When the board comes after I reflash with a new U-boot image, I no
> > longer see the ethaddr being set. But when I do a tftp I can see the
> > ethaddr being read. tftp complains and says no ethaddr set.
> 
> Not sure, but it seems that the mac address is read from the eeprom
> connected to the DM9000 and it is not used again.
> I see that the mac address is copied into the environment variable, but
> is is not copied to the dev structure.
> 
> Could you give the following simple patch a try ?
> 
> Regards,
> Stefano
> 

Thanks for your patch. I tried an image with your patch
The issues still persists.

I am wondering if any other board using this driver is facing this issue.
To me it seems to be generic to the DM9000.

It does not exist on the EMAC driver for DM355. dhcp works just fine.

Thanks,
Sandeep





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