[U-Boot-Users] Ethernet Address

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <2692A548B75777458914AC89297DD7DA026FADA0 at bronze.dolby.net> you wrote:
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> When I first started up my board (ebony) with u-boot, I set the Ethernet
> address incorrectly. Instead of using the colon format
> (00:04:ac:e3:1c:4c) I entered the hex values all together(0004ace31c4c).
> So I think now the Ethernet address environment variable is permanently
> wrong. When I use the command bdi it says ethhaddr =3D 4c:00:00:00:00:00.
> Is there a way to fix this, may be by using the JTAG hardware debugger
> or something?

Assuming you store your environment in flash:

- use "protect off" command to make sector containing the environment
  writable
- use "erase" to erase sector containing the environment
- "reset", and the board will come up with it's default environment

Just using "mw 0 0;cp 0 <addr> 1" instead of  the  erase  will  work,
too, as it will overwrite the CRC32 checksum.

If you don;t want to lose  your  existting  environment  definitions,
trickier  approaches  are possible, too: copy the environment to RAM,
edit it using "mm", compute a new checksum and store it to the  start
of  the envrionment (easy to be done with "crc32" command), and write
it back to where you store it (flash, eeprom, etc.).

TIMTOWTDI.

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Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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