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14 years ago

TSE (Triple Speed Ethernet) MAC on uClinux with MMU

Hello all, I am having some difficulties with the TSE MAC in uClinux with MMU. I am working on Terasic DE4 board, with "unstable-nios2mmu" in linux-2.6 and "trunk" in uClinux-dist. All fol...
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14 years ago

On (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.uclinux.nios2.devel/10), in your discussion with Walter, you have stated that phy-addr is optional. When I tried to use mii-id only, the linux boots and I have the eth0 recognized.

When I run# ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55

the mac address is set without problems. Then I run# ifconfig eth0 10.0.1.37

skb_over_panic: text:d016ef48 len:65533 put:65533 head:df36e800 data:df36e822 tail:0xdf37e81f end:0xdf36ee20 dev:eth0

BUG: failure at /home/user/Desktop/linuxonAltera/nios2-linux/linux-2.6/net/core/skbuff.c:128/skb_over_panic()!

Kernel panic - not syncing: BUG!

Is this because I don't have phy-addr variable in dts, or caused by another problem? Have you ever seen such an error before?