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

[Joe Hershberger]

Hi Michael,

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc> wrote:
>> 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.

I tested this on Panda board and wireshark reports the correct source
MAC address.

Please provide details of which board and driver you are using.

Thanks,
-Joe