[U-Boot-Users] MAC address setting

[Mirco Fuchs]

> Hi all!
> 
> I have custom designed ARM board, based on AT91RM9200EK reference design. 
> Hardware works fine.
> And I have following problem: When U-boot loads Kernel image from tftp, 
> everything fine. When U-Boot starts kernel from flash, then Linux cannot 
> communicate to ethernet device. I understand, that this is because MAC 
> address was not set by U-Boot. But I could not find a command to initialise 
> Ethernet.

I have the same problem with an other AT91RM9200 based board, but 
this is not an u-boot issue. The kernel driver for the emac should 
initialize this correctly, but this is obviously not the case. I 
worked around this problem by doing a ping manually before booting 
linux or by inserting the eth_init() function call in 
start_armboot().

Regards

Mirco