BOOTP and MVME5500

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
Wed Feb 11 19:28:11 UTC 2009


Kate Feng wrote:
> As per discussion with Robert, it was because the NIC on his boot host is
> 100 MHz. I fixed this bug for the mvme5500-1GHz in 4.8.0 release as well.
> Thanks for being patient in waiting for the  4.9.1 release.
>
>   
So does 4.9.1 need a patch?  If so, can one of you file a PR
with the changes so 4.9.2 will include it.

--joel
> Regards,
> Kate
>
> Robert Varner wrote:
>   
>> I recently upgraded to 4.9.1 and discovered that my MVME5500 would no
>> longer BOOTP.  After some research, I discovered that the "bsp.h" file
>> had been set to choose the Gigabit ethernet interface, a change
>> from the earlier version I was using (4.7).  However, even after
>> I changed connections, the module still fails to hear the BOOTP response
>> from my server.  If I modify "bsp.h" to select the 10/100 ethernet
>> interface on the MVME5500, it can successfully BOOTP.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest what I should do to successfully use the Gigabit
>> ethernet interface on the MVME5500 with RTEMS 4.9.1?
>>
>> Robert Varner
>> varnerrl at ornl.gov
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