From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 2 21:43:25 2010 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 595C4106566B for <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:43:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-arm@dino.sk) Received: from loki.netlab.sk (ns3.netlab.sk [84.245.65.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12108FC12 for <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:43:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from door.dino.sk (fw1.dino.sk [84.245.95.252]) (AUTH: PLAIN milan, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by loki.netlab.sk with esmtp; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:43:35 +0100 id 00033C0F.4CD08607.0000A6C9 From: Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm@dino.sk> To: Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:43:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-STABLE; KDE/4.5.2; i386; ; ) References: <201010202309.40148.freebsd-arm@dino.sk> <201010272259.36319.freebsd-arm@dino.sk> <DEF142CA-E6D8-4521-8DB4-D9AB604E919C@semihalf.com> In-Reply-To: <DEF142CA-E6D8-4521-8DB4-D9AB604E919C@semihalf.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011022243.33116.freebsd-arm@dino.sk> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Guruplug Server Plus working to some extent... [mge1 problem SOLVED] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor <freebsd-arm.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm>, <mailto:freebsd-arm-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-arm-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm>, <mailto:freebsd-arm-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:43:25 -0000 On Saturday 30 October 2010 15:02:43 Rafal Jaworowski wrote: > On 2010-10-27, at 22:59, Milan Obuch wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 October 2010 18:44:23 Rafal Jaworowski wrote: [snip] > > > > One issue still remains - mge1 has no unique ether address, all-zero is > > set upon reboot unless explicitly set in dts. This is small issue for > > me, need not be resolved urgently. > > This issue is not easily resolved in general. U-Boot would only initialize > MAC address in registers of an Ethernet controller, which was used at > least once. If an Ethernet controller unit is not used at the U-Boot stage > its MAC address registers remain uninitialized. Now, in our case the OS > can only learn about MAC address either from DT or (in case there are all > 0's) fall back to whatever was set by the firmware. > For now I found simple and effective solution (maybe not nice, but that's just matter of taste, anyway). I modified U-Boot's environment, so now there are following variables set: bootcmd=setenv ethact egiga1; ${x_bootcmd_ethernet}; setenv ethact egiga0; ${x_bootcmd_ethernet}; tftpboot kernel.bin; go 800000 x_bootcmd_ethernet=ping 192.168.16.1 ipaddr=192.168.16.5/24 serverip=192.168.16.133 This is not permanent and nice solution, but sufficient for now. This way, firmware sets both interfaces' ether address. Milan