[U-Boot] TFTP timeouts, i.mx fec problem?

Troy Kisky troy.kisky at boundarydevices.com
Fri May 31 21:09:02 CEST 2013


On 5/31/2013 11:58 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Stefano Babic,
>
> In message <51A8C5DA.3090605 at denx.de> you wrote:
>>> The question is if there is no better way to wait for the PHY to
>>> become (really) ready?
>> The phy is reinitialized after each transaction - the safiest condition
>> to boot afterwards the kernel. Or we need a way to stop the phy only
> Yes, that is clear, we fully agree on that.
>
> But can we not test for "autoneogitation completed, link up and
> running" before we send the first packet?
>
> Or rather - why do we have this issue appearently only on i.MX?  We
> don't see this on other ARM or on PowerPC?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
Think of this as incentive to convert to the board to  PHYLIB.

Troy



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