[FE training-materials-updates] U-boot lab: instruct to set ethaddr
Michael Opdenacker
michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com
Tue Oct 8 10:21:05 CEST 2013
Repository : git://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials.git
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Link : http://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials/commit/?id=689a0c2c3a02796a682caba36e610c2c4aee6e47
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commit 689a0c2c3a02796a682caba36e610c2c4aee6e47
Author: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>
Date: Tue Oct 8 10:19:02 2013 +0200
U-boot lab: instruct to set ethaddr
- Most participants faced the issue that 'ethaddr' is not set.
This confuses people with less experience and causes
questions to the instructor. It's good to add explanations here.
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>
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689a0c2c3a02796a682caba36e610c2c4aee6e47
labs/sysdev-u-boot/sysdev-u-boot.tex | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/labs/sysdev-u-boot/sysdev-u-boot.tex b/labs/sysdev-u-boot/sysdev-u-boot.tex
index f389d88..ff39baa 100644
--- a/labs/sysdev-u-boot/sysdev-u-boot.tex
+++ b/labs/sysdev-u-boot/sysdev-u-boot.tex
@@ -375,6 +375,13 @@ setenv ipaddr 192.168.0.100
setenv serverip 192.168.0.1
\end{verbatim}
+The first time you use your board, you also need to send the MAC address
+in U-boot:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+setenv ethaddr 01:02:03:04:05:06
+\end{verbatim}
+
In case the board was previously configured in a different way, we
also turn off automatic booting after commands that can be used to
copy a kernel to RAM:
@@ -390,8 +397,8 @@ saveenv
\end{verbatim}
Now switch your board off and on again\footnote{Power cycling your
- board is needed to make your ethaddr permanent, for obscure
- reasons. If you don't, U-boot will complain that ethaddr is not
+ board is needed to make your \code{ethaddr} permanent, for obscure
+ reasons. If you don't, U-boot will complain that \code{ethaddr} is not
set.}.
You can then test the TFTP connection. First, put a small text file in
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