[U-Boot] [U-Boot-Users] How to pass MAC address to linux kernel?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Jayakumar A,

Please restrict your line length to some 70 characters or so.  Thanks.

In message <3D423A5438408C4EA43DA95D38F9989B7C9B6ED0ED at EXCHINDMAIL.patni.com> you wrote:
>
> I was going through the mail chain of "passing  MAC address to Linux kernel
> "( http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg09312.
> html)  and found you could be of great help in helping our issue.

This information is 4 years old and obsolete.

> We wish to set the ipaddress on the ARM-9 board retrieving from a particula
> r file and start the network services:

If you are talk about "retrieve from a file" you probably mean under
Linux?  That should be trivial to implement.

In U-Boot, we use the environment to store MAC addresses.

> We are using FreeScaleArm9 board and to statically set the system we have f
> lashed the kernel(linux-2.6.31) on NAND Flash with DHCP off.
> As per ltib settings it says: to have static ip-settings, either set the ip
> -address while configuring LTIB or change in the file /etc/rc.d/rc.conf.

This is all Linux stuff and off topic here.  Also, LTIB is Freesale's
code, so please ask Freescale support about it.

> If you could please share some information regarding the static -ip setting
> s and starting network serives it should be of great help.

It is totally unclear to me what you are actually asking 0 it seems
you confuse MAC and IP addresses at a pretty much fundamental level.
In any case, you appear to refer to Linux configuration, which is off
topic here.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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