On 29.04.22 02:26, Andrew Lunn wrote:
On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 11:25:00PM +0300, Mauri Sandberg wrote:
Hello Andrew!
On 28.4.2022 3.18, Andrew Lunn wrote:
- there is no concensus on how to get ascii formatted MAC address from mtd
partitions so eth is not fully functional without setting the MAC from
userspace
Ideally this is handled by the boot loader, but that requires being
able to update
it.
The mv643xx Ethernet driver is happy if it finds the MAC address
already in the hardware. The vendor uboot often does this. Does tftp
boot work in uboot? That would indicate it has access to the MAC
address.
The u-boot is really limited and I am transferring new images over kermit.
Ouch!
If you can, try kexec. You can use wget or similar to grab the kernel
from you host machine, and then something like:
kexec --append 'rootwait ro earlyprintk console=ttyS0,115200n8' bzImage
wget will be much faster then kernel.
Nice, this looks promising. Thanks for the tip.
