[U-Boot] [PATCH] Olimex SAM9-L9260 board support

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Oct 8 00:55:54 CEST 2008


Dear Cristian Birsan,

In message <48EBDD33.30001 at gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> I used again setenv ethaddr 00:04:25:12:34:56 in u-boot. After saveenv and reboot i used md command to display the EMAC 0xFFFC4000 (named MACB in the driver )
> registers

setenv affects only the U-Boot environment variables. It doe snot
program any device registers for you.

And PLEASE: restrict your line length to 70 characters or less.

> Nfs works only with the ugly code that was removed.
> 
> I'm spinning in a circle :(

Please read the previous postings, and the FAQ.

> Please send me any suggestion.

Fix your Linux driver to pick up the MAC address from some convenient
place; using a kernel boot argument is one option, using  the  device
tree  is  another one. The former is less effort, the latter is more,
but would earn you a lot of credits :-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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