[U-Boot-Users] Uboot (AT91 tree) macb in MII mode

[Sander Vermin <sander@vermin.nl>]

Stelian Pop schreef:
> Le lundi 14 avril 2008 ? 11:19 +0200, Sander Vermin a ?crit :
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>>> Do you have a working Linux kernel with a working network interface ? 
>>> The Linux and U-Boot macb driver and PIO configuration is very close,
>>> and if you manage to make it work under Linux you'll probably have
>>> little trouble finding out the problem.
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>> Are all settings of uboot overwritten by linux?
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> Almost all the settings are overwritten, yes.
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Oke, olimex has a demo linux with working ethernet.. I can try to put 
this on my board with my current uboot.
>>  I am not to comfortable 
>> hacking in the Linux kernel and I had the focus on Uboot.
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> So you do not have a working Linux kernel. This was my question.
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>>>> Olimex was kind enough to make Uboot nandflash build working with there 
>>>> board, And deliver sources I cant compile, due to an error: Hardware 
>>>> float vs software float. But I want a dataflash version because I am 
>>>> using a BGA chip with nandflash bug.
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>>> I don't see what NAND has to do with ethernet here.
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>> The AT91SAM9260 BGA chip has a bug, that booting from NAND has problems.
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> Ok, but this has nothing to do with the Ethernet, right ? If the
> ethernet is supposed to work with their U-Boot version, it will probably
> work as well if you configure U-Boot to boot from dataflash instead of
> NAND flash.
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>>> Also, what cross chain are you using ? I have seen strange network
>>> errors when using recent compilers which after investigation were -Os
>>> optimisation errors. (using the latest CodeSourcery toolchain for
>>> example).
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>> I am using the compilers from buildroot.
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> This doesn't learn us anything about the gcc version you're using.
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> The official toolchain for U-Boot is the DENX ELDK:
> http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK . I don't really think this is your
> issue, but when nothing works it may make sense to put yourself in a
> well known configuration.
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Is there some pre compiled  arm version?
>> Olimex has indeed, but that is a old version of uboot, the old ETHER 
>> driver and not the new. I inspected the initialization code on the ARM 
>> side, that was the same. The rest of te code is completely different, so 
>> spotting differences is difficult.
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> Ah, I understand. However, there must be a difference somewhere. I'm not
> sure about this board, but on the SAM boards a software reset has to be
> performed once the PHY address is configured to activate the PHY (look
> into at91sam9260.c). Maybe your board needs something equivalent ?
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Currently I am using the at91sam9260ek config with the options above edited.

Sander