[U-Boot] FW: ARM Pull Request

[Prafulla Wadaskar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Roese [mailto:sr at denx.de] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:57 AM
> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Cc: Prafulla Wadaskar; Ben Warren; Ashish Karkare; Prabhanjan Sarnaik
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] FW: ARM Pull Request
> 
> On Thursday 23 July 2009 08:16:47 Prafulla Wadaskar wrote:
> > > I'm working on the repo right now and should have another
> > > pull request soon.  The 'forced interface' patch is still
> > > contentious, so isn't included.
> >
> > Okay
> > With this for RD6281 Build will not fail, but network will 
> be broken.
> > Meanwhile I will check why auto negotiation doesn't work on 
> this board?
> 
> Did you check if Lennert's comments are correct?
Dear Stefan
Yes, I have checked.

> 
> Quote:
> >Isn't it just because on the RD6281A, the first ethernet MAC of the
> >CPU is connected to an ethernet switch chip instead of an 
> ethernet PHY,
> >and therefore there is no negotiation to be done?
But auto negotiation works with other board for similar case (i.e. mv88f6281gtw_ge)
Only the difference is on rd6281A multichip addressing mode is used.
I cannot comment much on this at this moment, this is my observation.
So I was planning to debug this part.
 
  (The second MAC
> >is connected to a PHY directly, so that one should just use autoneg.)
Yes, this is functional on egiga1

> >
> >Even on the RD6281Z, we should just force the ethernet MAC to a
> >fixed speed/duplex, since even though PHY polling might work there,
> >we'll be talking to the PHY corresponding to the first switch port,
> >which means that you might not be able to tftp from the second switch
> >port or so if there's nothing plugged into the first one.
> >
> >FWIW, the linux kernel port also forces 1000/full on the CPU 
> MACs where
> >a switch chip is connected.  On those CPU MACs where there 
> is a switch
> >chip connected, the (R)(G)MII interface becomes purely a bus to
> >transport packets into and out of the crossbar, one that is 
> always up.
> 
> So, is this ethernet port in question connected to switch? 
> Then a forced link 
> (highest speed) should be used.
This is what I was trying to do,
but it was through CONGIF_ options and that is applied to both ports,
in case we need to force link speed then I need to provide some configurable interface
for u-boot kirkwood egiga driver.

Regards..
Prafulla . .
 
> 
> Best regards,
> Stefan
> 
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