[U-Boot] FW: ARM Pull Request

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

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?

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?  (The second MAC
>is connected to a PHY directly, so that one should just use autoneg.)
>
>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.

Best regards,
Stefan

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