[U-Boot-Users] Network problem in u-boot.
Stefan Roese
sr at denx.de
Wed Nov 16 18:53:18 CET 2005
Hi Andre,
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 14:09, André Berggren wrote:
> I made some more tests and found that the old 405enet driver wont halt
> forever like the old 440 and the latest 4xx driver does. The old 405enet
> only outputs "ENET Speed is 100 Mbps - FULL duplex connection" sleeps for a
> while and then resumes the transfer.
>
> Observe that the problem only occurs when another computer send packets to
> u-boot or broadcasting on the network. If non of this occurs the transfer
> is always successful.
OK.
> I enabled debug and got following output:
>
> => run setup
> miiphy_register: non unique device name 'ppc_4xx_eth0'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is a problem recently added to the 4xx ethernet driver. I haven't found
the time to fix it yet.
> ENET Speed is 100 Mbps - FULL duplex connection
> BOOTP broadcast 1
> DHCPHandler: got packet: (src=67, dst=68, len=300) state: 3
> Filtering pkt = 0
> DHCPHandler: got DHCP packet: (src=67, dst=68, len=300) state: 3
> DHCP: state=SELECTING bp_file: "/tftpboot/kernel.img"
> TRANSITIONING TO REQUESTING STATE
> Bootfile: /tftpboot/kernel.img
> DhcpSendRequestPkt: Sending DHCPREQUEST
> Transmitting DHCPREQUEST packet: len = 343
> DHCPHandler: got packet: (src=67, dst=68, len=300) state: 4
> Filtering pkt = 0
> DHCPHandler: got DHCP packet: (src=67, dst=68, len=300) state: 4
> DHCP State: REQUESTING
> Bootfile: /tftpboot/kernel.img
> DHCP client bound to address 172.18.22.66
> TFTP from server 172.18.22.110; our IP address is 172.18.22.66
> Filename '/tftpboot/kernel.img'.
> Load address: 0x200000
> Loading: #################################################################
> #################################################################
> #################################################################
> #################################################################
> ##########################################T miiphy_register: non
> unique device name 'ppc_4xx_eth0'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
See above.
I assume, that you don't have CONFIG_NET_MULTI enabled right now. Correct? As
a simple workaround for this problem, please enable CONFIG_NET_MULTI in your
config file. And please let me know, if this helped.
Best regards,
Stefan
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