[U-Boot] macb: get mac address from environment

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 11 July 2009 22:27:36 Andrzej Wolski wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 July 2009 19:05:40 Andrzej Wolski wrote:
> >> This fix macb driver broken by commit
> >> 56b555a644f3cbb1b3929cb52b61d3ce483885f5
> >
> > what exactly broke ?  drivers that are ported to NET_MULTI should *not*
> > be getting the mac from the environment.  and from what i can see, the
> > macb driver is properly supporting the NET_MULTI setup.
> >
> > looks to me like the existing code is correct and your new proposed code
> > is not
>
> Hmm. Since pointed commit Ethernet just stopped to work, at least on my
> board similar to SAM9260EK. Maybe someone else can confirm it?
>
> Moreover, since that patch, when ethaddr is not set in the environment,
> and I set it from command line, I get this while trying to ping:
>
> U-Boot> ping 192.168.2.1
> macb0: link up, 100Mbps full-duplex (lpa: 0x45e1)
> *** ERROR: `ethaddr' not set
> macb0: link up, 100Mbps full-duplex (lpa: 0x45e1)
> ping failed; host 192.168.2.1 is not alive

do you have CONFIG_NET_MULTI defined ?  if not, your board needs to switch 
over to it.
-mike
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