I have two boards from the different vendor, in which the first one works well other board with Macronix flash memory fails to detect the ethaddrr.
EDIT: My hardware info:
Working Hw: Micoron 512MB Nor flash, AR; 32-bit
Not working Hw: Macronix 512 MB(MX29GL256F) NOR Flash, ARM 32 bit.
I checked there is not ethaddr in my env variable. I checked in my working board I have ethaddr variable ethaddr=00:01:02:03:04:54 .
I tried to set the ethaddr/mac-id as 00:01:02:03:04:55 using setenv and saveenv but this doesn't work.
I checked my u-boot config also.
#define CONFIG_NET_MULTI 1
My question is, ethaddr/mac-id is more Hw specific why don't it detects ethddr in certain boards?
This is my error info :
U-Boot 2010.09 (Apr 16 2018 - 10:59:13)
DRAM: 32 MiB
Flash: 32 MiB
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: macb0
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Checking firmware at 0x100e0000-0x107fffff
invalid magic 0xffff, ignoring
Checking firmware at 0x10820000-0x10f3ffff
invalid magic 0xffff, ignoring
highest = 0
No valid firmware in flash, trying to load kernel and ramdisk from server
macb0: PHY present at 0
macb0: Starting autonegotiation...
macb0: Autonegotiation complete
macb0: link up, 100Mbps full-duplex (lpa: 0xcde1)
*** ERROR: `ethaddr' not set
macb0: PHY present at 0
macb0: link up, 100Mbps full-duplex (lpa: 0xcde1)
Wrong Image Format for bootm command
ERROR: can't get kernel image!
Don't ever set MAC addresses just out of the blue. Kernel is not picking it up because your MAC address has multicast bit set.
See http://www.denx.de/wiki/bin/view/DULG/EthernetDoesNotWork
If you want to set a local MAC address you need to make sure it's valid. U-BOOT you can do that by using
$ make tools/gen_eth_addr
cc tools/gen_eth_addr.c -o tools/gen_eth_addr
$ tools/gen_eth_addr
ba:d0:4a:9c:4e:ce
See http://www.denx.de/wiki/bin/view/DULG/WhereCanIGetAValidMACAddress for details.
Also this is not a kernel programming problem so it really doesn't belong here.