[U-Boot-Users] FCC & Linux
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Mar 31 21:03:42 CEST 2004
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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