[U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Disable sun8i emac driver

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Wed Jul 27 10:29:28 CEST 2016


On Wed, 2016-07-27 at 00:28 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Disable the sun8i emac driver for now, there are 2 issues with it:
> 
> 1) It is causing issues with network connectivity under the kernel
> driver,
> when booting the kernel with v2 of Corentin's sun8i-h3 emac driver, I
> get
> the connection status bouncing between connected at 100mbps full-
> duplex
> and being down every second.
> 
> The second issue is that when trying to use it from u-boot
> I get a number of unaligned cache flush errors:
> 
> => dhcp
> BOOTP broadcast 1
> BOOTP broadcast 2
> CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [7bf594a8, 7bf59628]
> BOOTP broadcast 3
> CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [7bf59c90, 7bf59e10]
> CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [7bf5a478, 7bf5a5f8]
> DHCP client bound to address 10.42.43.80 (1009 ms)
> 
> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
> Cc: Corentin LABBE <clabbe.montjoie at gmail.com>
> Cc: Amit Singh Tomar <amittomer25 at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>

Is someone (in the Cc?) looking into this so we can eventually
reenable?

Anyway, for now disabling makes sense I guess:

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk>



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