> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 23:07:00 +0300
> From: Artturi Alm <[email protected]>
> 
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 07:45:53PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:21:31 +0300
> > > From: Artturi Alm <[email protected]>
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > anyone else having issues with sxie? w/bsd.rd from latest snapshot
> > > it was unable to get ip from dhcpd even.
> > > 
> > > this is what it does look like at the other side:
> > > 
> > > 11:01:15.170089 e6:29:5b:e9:e6:29 5b:e9:e6:29:5b:e9 5be9 342: 
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629
> > > 11:01:15.170353 e6:29:5b:e9:e6:29 5b:e9:e6:29:5b:e9 5be9 342: 
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9
> > >                          e629 5be9 e629
> > > 
> > > just to make sure there was nothing physically wrong in my setup,
> > > i attached usb-ethernet(axen), and got the ip like expected, this
> > > was in a row to the earlier garbage w/o rebooting in between.
> > > 
> > > i haven't used it for like a year, so got no time frame when this
> > > has appeared, anyone w/ideas?
> > > -Artturi
> > 
> > I'm upgrading my A10s-ALinuXino-Micro over sxie(4), so the driver
> > defenitely still works for me.
> > 
> 
> That's good. Do you know if u-boot did init it? In my case i'm quite
> sure the u-boot i used did not, and i'm now guessing just by quick
> look at sxie.c, that iirc. there was some ugly hack somewhere to enable
> the use of some sram section in memory for the emac, and since i saw no
> trace of that hack in sxie.c, maybe it was elsewhere and got cleaned up?
> meaning sxie would rely on u-boot to work? i'll test when i have a free
> sd-card, will let you know.

Yes, U-Boot initializes the network interface.

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