[U-Boot] Invalid Netconsole source MAC address [was: Re: [STATUS] v2012.07-rc1 is out - release date July 23]

Michael Walle michael at walle.cc
Sat Jul 21 20:04:42 CEST 2012


> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag 10 Juli 2012, 09:31:42 schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > this is to let you know that the v2012.07-rc1 prerelease is out.
> > 
> > Please help testing, so we can fix the remaining issues before the
> > release, which I decided to shift by a week, i. e. the new schedule
> > for the release is July 23.
> 
> I just noticed, that netconsole isnt working anymore for stdout. The source
> mac address is set to 00:00:00:00:00:00 in the udp packet which is sent by
> u- boot :(
> 
> But haven't figured out yet why it NetOurEther isn't initialized.
> 
> @Joe: would be nice if the fix would make it into this release.

Mh i guess NetLoop isn't called and thus NetOurEther is never initialized. 
Similar issue like d7310c7e63ca9ffd42527dc9735cb505cbe908b7. Initializing 
NetOurEther in net_init() fixes the problem.


-- 
Michael


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