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From: Armin <akuster@pacbell.net>
To: andrew may <acmay@acmay.homeip.net>
Cc: Stefan Roese <stefan.roese@esd-electronics.com>,
	linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: PPC405gp enet Soft Reset
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 10:53:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C63AE1A.7000907@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020208103557.A27732@ecam.san.rr.com


andrew may wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:03:59AM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
>
>>Andrew
>>
>>
>>>I seem to be having a problem with the soft reset of EMAC
>>>mode register when I have no ethernet connection to by phy.
>>>
>>We have the same problem (CPCI-405 with Intel LXT971 PHY).
>>
>
> It is good to see that the problem is known.
>
>
>>>After this code in init_ppc405_enet(void) the SRST bit does
>>>not clear until after I stick in a cable.
>>>
>>See Chapter 19.7.1 in PPC405GP User Manual (EMAC0_MR0):
>>
>
> The prelim hard copies I have been looking at failed to mention
> the clocks need to be active, but I did check the pdf and it is
> in there, so I guees I will try to look more at the soft copy these
> days.
>
>
>>It seems that we can't reset and setup the EMAC correctly without cable
>>connected (no cable == no PHY clock!). So what do we do when this occurs?
>>Disable the driver?
>>
>
> Your joking right? To do that is less than a 10 line hack, that I had to do
> to stop the driver from doing a panic or crashing, but I would not feel
> good about sending that as a patch. The driver needs to be able to handle
> this, but it will take some rework and it would be nice to know if there
> is really a reason to do the SoftReset before probing the phy.
>
>
>
>

Andrew & Stefan,

The softrest could probably be removed from the _init.  its dup'd in _open.



--armin


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-08 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-08  3:17 PPC405gp enet Soft Reset andrew may
2002-02-08 10:03 ` Stefan Roese
2002-02-08 18:35   ` andrew may
2002-02-08 10:53     ` Armin [this message]
2002-02-08 20:01       ` andrew may
2002-02-11 11:55         ` David Müller (ELSOFT AG)
2002-02-12  0:49           ` andrew may
2002-02-13  8:37             ` 405 MII-PHY communication problem (was: Re: PPC405gp enet Soft Reset) David Müller (ELSOFT AG)
2002-02-13 15:15               ` Stefan Roese
2002-02-19 12:05               ` David Müller (ELSOFT AG)
2002-02-19 12:21                 ` Stefan Roese
2002-02-22  0:56                 ` andrew may

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