Towards an ARM system-building script

[Tim Kientzle]

On Oct 10, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Giovanni Trematerra wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Ian Lepore
> <freebsd at damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 23:42 +0200, Giovanni Trematerra wrote:
>>> I booted a kernel with your suggestion but I get a panic during
>>> initialization of ue0 I think
>> 
>> It looks like bootpc_init() is getting called before USB has found the
>> ethernet adapter.  It might be fixable with a simple patch such as the
>> following, but I really don't know whether this will work, and even if
>> it does, whether it's a good idea (hopefully someone more knowledgable
>> will offer an opinion).  But if nothing else it's an interesting
>> experiment to try.
> 
> I think the patch is wrong at least in my case.
> I had to run the "usb start" command from U-boot to have
> ethernet card of PandaBoard working.

What happens if you disable BOOTP in the kernel?

That might help clarify whether the Ethernet isn't
working at all or whether the Ethernet isn't getting
started early enough for BOOTP.

Tim