In message <BA0E4392AD99D040885C414D992C24BE03615100 at us-bv-m11> you wrote: > > 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.
You have always the option to completely ignore such dfaults and use the mechanisms available in U-Boot, for example just storing the addresses in U-Boot environment variables (like 95% of all boards do). Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de 1000 pains = 1 Megahertz ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
