Ebony Board, PPC440GP and NFS panics

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu May 20 03:59:15 EST 2004


In message <4.2.2.20040519091201.05090ce0 at bhawley.mailhost.luminex.com> you wrote:
>
...
> come out.  We think that is because linux is thinking the MAC address is
> ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff instead of what
> it really is.  u-boot doesn't seem to have a problem getting the MAC
> address out of the ebony board, but
> this linux kernel seems to.

U-Boot passes the MAC address to the Linux kernel, so if your  kernel
is  configured  for use with U-Boot, then it will pick up the correct
MAC address. Maybe it is not?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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