[microblaze-uclinux] mbvanilla_net released

[John Williams <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au>]

Hi everyone,

The mbvanilla_net hardware target v1.00a has been released and is 
available on the website.

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~jwilliams/mblaze-uclinux

When I get a chance I will document the menuconfig settings necessary to 
enable networking - it's basically the same as any other uClinux 
platform now.

Here's the quick version:

Enable the xemac driver (see my earlier email), build the "ifconfig" 
application (part of busybox), and any other network applications you 
require.

Upon bootup run ifconfig to set your ip, broadcast and netmask addresses 
(also ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 for the loopback device).  search the 
/vendors heirarchy for examples of ifconfig usage).

To use NFS you must enable NFS support in the "filesystems" menu under 
kernel config, build (and run) the "portmap" network application, enable 
NFS mount support in busybox "mount" utility, and of course set up your 
workstation to export an NFS mount (/etc/exports, /sbin/exportfs)

Also Busybox "ping" doesn't seem to work - no idea why but the 
standalone "ping" is fine.

Cheers,

John

PS the base address of the xemac (and the other OPB periphs actually) is 
still set in linux-2.4.x/include/asm-microblaze/xparameters.h.  One day 
there'll be a more flexible and maintainable solution, but until now 
just edit your local copy of that file to reflect any changes you make 
to the mbvanilla_XXX targets).

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