ethernet patch for kernel 2.6 for ml403

Fri Sep 15 21:17:27 EST 2006

    I have used a later version of what I beleive is the same patch.
            http://source.mvista.com/~ank/paulus-powerpc/20060309/

    This is for the PLB TEMAC. My guess based on your capture below is 
that you are using that IP.

    Did you try ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ?
    I do not know what is in the rest of your init setup but something 
must asign the IP and bring up the interface.

Aleck Lin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found this patch that was posted back in January
> (http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/2006-January/021574.html).
>
> As I was trying it, there were some warnings and errors. When I fixed them
> as much as I could to the point of a successful compilation, I tried to boot
> this kernel image on ml403. However, it still complains that no network
> devices available. 
>
> TWO questions.
> 1. Has anyone ever tried with the patch and been successful with it?
> 2. Why does it still complain no network devices found even though I thot I
> added the correct ethernet driver? 
>
> Thanks for any help as I'm still relatively new to this.
>
> Aleck
>
>
> Here's my booting message.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> ## Booting image at 00800000 ...
>    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.17.8
>    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
>    Data Size:    854118 Bytes = 834.1 kB
>    Load Address: 00000000
>    Entry Point:  00000000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
>    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
> ## cmdline at 0x007FFF00 ... 0x007FFF37
> memstart    = 0x00000000
> memsize     = 0x04000000
> flashstart  = 0xFF800000
> flashsize   = 0x00800000
> flashoffset = 0x00000000
> sramstart   = 0x00000000
> sramsize    = 0x00000000
> bootflags   = 0x0000012A
> procfreq    =    300 MHz
> plb_busfreq =    100 MHz
> ethaddr     = 00:11:22:33:44:55
> IP addr     = 192.168.200.230
> baudrate    =   9600 bps
> ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 01000000 ...
>    Image Name:   Simple Embedded Linux Framework
>    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
>    Data Size:    1437217 Bytes =  1.4 MB
>    Load Address: 00000000
>    Entry Point:  00000000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
>    Loading Ramdisk to 03d03000, end 03e61e21 ... OK
> [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.17.8 (aleck at sac.gdatech.com) (gcc version
> 4.0.0 (DENX ELDK 4.0 4.0.0)) #87 Thu Sep 14 20:06:23 PDT 2006
> [    0.000000] Xilinx ML403 Reference System (Virtex-4 FX)
> [    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 ip=192.168.200.230
> root=/dev/ram0 rw
> [    0.000000] Xilinx INTC #0 at 0x41200000 mapped to 0xFDFFE000
> [    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
> [    0.000151] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> [    0.000567] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> [    0.001213] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> [    0.013282] Memory: 61632k available (1308k kernel code, 476k data, 84k
> init, 0k highmem)
> [    0.200420] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> [    0.202863] checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic);
> looks like an initrd
> [    0.863139] Freeing initrd memory: 1403k freed
> [    0.866364] NET: Registered protocol family 16
> [    0.869487] Generic PHY: Registered new driver
> [    0.874412] NET: Registered protocol family 2
> [    0.912357] IP route cache hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048
> bytes)
> [    0.913062] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192
> bytes)
> [    0.913241] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> [    0.913339] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 1024)
> [    0.913368] TCP reno registered
> [    0.920012] io scheduler noop registered
> [    0.920111] io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
> [    0.920187] io scheduler deadline registered
> [    0.920346] io scheduler cfq registered
> [    0.958113] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ
> sharing disabled
> [    0.962450] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x40401003 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> [    2.871187] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024
> blocksize
> [    2.961972] allocating ethernet device...
> [    3.010204] eth%d: using fifo mode.
> [    3.052064] eth%d: Xilinx EMAC #0 at 0x80400000 mapped to 0xC5000000,
> irq=31
> [    3.136606] eth%d: id 2.0a; block id 0, type 8
> [    3.190431] Marvell 88E1101: Registered new driver
> [    3.250101] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
> [    3.310712] tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk at qualcomm.com>
> [    3.385845] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> [    3.448583] TCP bic registered
> [    3.485307] NET: Registered protocol family 1
> [    3.537610] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> [    4.096219] IP-Config: No network devices available.
> [    4.156871] RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> [    5.002841] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> [    5.058432] Freeing unused kernel memory: 84k init
> ### Application running ...
>
>
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