[U-Boot] TSEC ethernet controller problems (crc errors/ corruption)

[Kim Phillips]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:19:18 -0700
Ira Snyder <iws at ovro.caltech.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:25:03PM -0700, Ira Snyder wrote:
> > > 
> > > And what is the SICRH[30-31]?
> > > Did you have the matching settings for GMII with 3.3V?
> > > 
> > 
> > => md e0000118 1
> > e0000118: 00000002    ....
> > 
> > This looks wrong. The MPC8349EMDS board has the exact same setting in
> > that register. Writing 0x0 to the SICRH register did not cause the
> > problem to go away.
> > 
> 
> The MPC8349EMDS config has had that setting since it was imported into
> U-Boot. I've copied the relevant part of include/configs/MPC8349EMDS.h
> below.
> 
> #define CONFIG_SYS_SICRH SICRH_TSOBI1
> 
> This seems wrong for the MPC8349EMDS board. I tried setting the register
> value to 0x0 by hand on my MPC8349EMDS eval board, and the network still
> works as expected.

still works or does not work?  100mbit or 1000mbit??

> Is this a bug in the MPC8349EMDS config?

It might be.  Another thing that changed wrt that area was commit
846f1574.  Assuming this is all still clear to me, perhaps what that
patch does should be made 8349-revision dependent?

Kim