[U-Boot] AR8031 Ethernet on mx6

[Fabio Estevam]

Hi Dirk,

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Dirk Behme <dirk.behme at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think a coworker has an ARM2, so I'll try to ask him on Monday.

Thanks for your help.

>
> But while talking about ethernet on MX6: There seems to be a lot of issues
> with 1GB ethernet. Or is it just confusion? As I'm no expert on this, I'm
> really confused. That means that I don't know if we still really have some
> issues with it or not :(
>
> The initial SabreLite boards (revision from September/Octorber last year?)
> had a hardware issue with 1GB ethernet. I was told that this hardware issue
> is fixed in the latest SabreLite boards with hardware revision D. But a
> coworker reports that it looks like GB ethernet even doesn't work with the
> U-Boot the SabreLite revision D ships with (?). Nor a more recent (patched?)
> U-Boot. I'm not sure if the recent (unpatched) mainline was tested, though.
> So this might be an issue of an U-Boot version which has SW patches for the
> old, broken ethernet applied, which now breaks the fixed hardware? Or is
> there still an hardware issue? I don't know.

I haven't worked with Gigabit Ethernet on mx6qsabrelite, but my
understanding is that it has been functional now in U-boot.

Ccing Troy and Eric as they probably know all the details.

Regards,

Fabio Estevam