[U-Boot-Users] FCC & Linux

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <3787.81.227.175.62.1080758079.squirrel at webmail.unisite.se> you wrote:
> 
> U-boot has configured the FCC fine. Why does Linux need to re-configure
> it, when it tries to do that by means of MII & MDIO it does not find any

Linux should not make any assumptions about if or how any devices  it
wants  to  use  might  have been initialized by any boot loader. Good
design is to make no such assumptions, and to initialize  the  device
in the Linux driver.

> PHY...and I lose the ethernet port.

Then your Linux FEC driver is broken and / or misconfigured.

> I am using MontaVista 3.1 and the 8260ADS LSP as a base for our Linux port.

Well, then ask MontaVista support for help. You are off topic on this
mailing list anyway.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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