[U-Boot-Users] Ethner RxBd init problem

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Dave,

in message <20040412213638.57633.qmail at web21412.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
> I have 8260 based board and am using u-boot for that.
> I boot kernel from the flash. All works fine however
> sometimes Linux Kernel does not boot after
> uncompressing, further investigation found that as the
> kernel entry point is address 0, and that is also
> address of netRxPackets, if a packet is received after

You are wrong here.  NetRxPackets[]  is  definitely  NOT  located  at
address 0.

> the kernel is unzipped by u-boot, ethernet driver
> corrupts data at address 0 thinking it as its buffer
> pointer. Hence kernel does not boot up in that case.

No, no, no.

> My first question is that why we dont initialize
> netRxPackets in net.c?? (these are only initialized
> once a network related operation (like ping) is done).

U-Boot uses the network only when a network related operation  is  in
progress, so why should we waste memory for buffers when they are not
needed?

> Is this the  corect behaviour?? has anyone observed
> this problem??

This is correct behaviour. It works perfectly find on  all  boards  I
was able to test.

You are on the wrong track.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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