[U-Boot] potential Uboot Ping problem

From: Steven Zedeck <saz@proliphix.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] potential Uboot Ping problem
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 08:03:52 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23816429.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B85A65D85D7EB246BE421B3FB0FBB59301D7DC94C4@dbde02.ent.ti.com>

I guess thats good news. I looked inside the cmd_ping code a bit. I bet
there's a "while" loop somewhere that is waiting for something and may not
have a timeout loop. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve

Premi, Sanjeev wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de 
>> [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of Steven Zedeck
>> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 8:05 PM
>> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
>> Subject: [U-Boot] potential Uboot Ping problem
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> It appears the ping in UBOOT is broken. The ping works fine 
>> if you have a
>> network connection. But if the network connection is 
>> disconnected the ping
>> hangs the system. There is no response to Control-C either. I 
>> have to power
>> cycle the proto to get back to a UBOOT prompt. Is this a 
>> known issue or did
>> I possibly break something?
>> 
>> I have a board based on the Atmel AT91SAM9RL-EK. My theory is 
>> that it "may"
>> be a generic problem with the uboot ping. I can't confirm 
>> that since the
>> only hardware I have is our protos.
> 
> It was noticed on the OMAP3EVM last FRI and we were suspecting
> it to be problem with the omap3 board configuration itself.
> (Though did not spend much time in debug).
> 
> Now, I too get a feeling that it could be a generic problem.
> 
> Best regards,
> Sanjeev
>> 
>> Does anyone else have a board with another MAC/PHY that you 
>> can try this on?
>> 
>> As for UBOOT code, our environment is based on 2008.10 code. 
>> Our MAC/PHY is
>> the Microchip ENC28J60.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>> 
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