> Are you using kernel code supplied by MontaVista (MV)? I had the same > problem; > we are using MontaVista 3.0 for the Ebony board, and I had trouble with > the interface from u-boot 0.2.0 to the MV kernel. The MV code is very > specific to the bootrom supplied by IBM; that bootrom is "custom" to each > unique Ebony board, because the 2 MAC addresses are stored at the end of the > bootrom (that's the "VPD" area). I had to modify 3 MV files to get the MAC > address passed in from u-boot to be used by the MV kernel > (kernel/arch/ppc/platforms/ebony.c, > kernel/include/asm-ppc/ibm440.h, and kernel/include/asm-ppc/ibm4xx.h). I > have attached > my patches for these files. > > After I got the MAC address to transfer over from u-boot, I had trouble with > nfs mounting > the root filesystem (I did not want to use bootp/dhcp in the nfs mounting > process). I had to > modify kernel/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c to get this to work (I've attached this > patch as well). > > Hope this helps. > > Erik Teose > erik.teose at tek.com
Thank you Erik, I will try your patchs today. El. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
