Jerone Young wrote: > So the issue here with the Sequoia board is that if you load a kernel or > initrd from usb stick while under u-boot environment, when Linux boots > it will see the network adapter & even set an ip for it. But no matter > what it is unable to access any outside ip. > > The way we recreated this scenario was: > > - Have a USB stick with > - partition 1 is fat partition with our kernel & initrd > - partition 2 is ext3 with our root filesystem > > 1) Boot Sequoia board with USB stick plugged in. Go to u-boot prompt. > 2) start usb using "usb start" > 3) Load kernel off usb stick using "fatload" command in uboot > * Optionally load initrd off of usb stick > * Example: > fatload usb 0:1 4000000 cuImage.sequoia > > 4) stop usb using "usb stop" > 5) Then boot kernel using bootm > > Now from this point linux loads and will mount the filesystem on the usb > stick. But if you want to use networking in anyway you have a problem. > You can start the telnet daemon and access from the board using > 127.0.0.1 address (loopback). Trying to access the telnet from an > outside ip is unsuccessful. > > Also, if you have it setup so that the root filesystem is on a nfs root, > the kernel is never able to get to the nfs root. Basically something is > really borked. > > I'm a little late getting back to this email :-0 > > On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 23:00 +0000, Hollis Blanchard wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:50:39 +0400, Valentine Barshak wrote: >> >>> Some PowerPC systems have a built-in EHCI controller. >>> This is a device tree aware version of the EHCI controller driver. >>> Currently it's been tested on the PowerPC 440EPx Sequoia board. >>> Other platforms can be added later. >>> The code is based on the ehci-ppc-soc driver by Stefan Roese <[EMAIL >>> PROTECTED]>. >> We're having a strange issue on our Sequoia where the network stops >> functioning when USB is active. Jerone can supply more detail... >> >> Have you seen anything like that? >> > Please try this patch: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-October/043435.html Thanks, Valentine. > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
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