Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] arm64: rockchip: Initial GeekBox enablement

Tomeu Vizoso
2016-03-15T07:23:59Z

On 14 March 2016 at 17:20, Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> wrote:
> Hi Tomeu
>
> On 3/14/2016 12:43 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>> Hi Peppe,
>>
>> with that patch I don't see any difference at all in my setup.
>>
>> So to be clear, with these commits on top of next-20160314, I still
>> get the hang during boot:
>>
>> 209afef6f0cd ARM: dts: rockchip: Add mdio node to ethernet node
>> 2315acc6cf7f Revert "stmmac: first frame prep at the end of xmit routine"
>> b5e08e810c63 stmmac: fix tx prepare for normal desc
>> 37c15a31d850 i2c: immediately mark ourselves as registered
>> 4342eec3c5a2 Add linux-next specific files for 20160314
>>
>> [ 27.521026] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:303
>> dev_watchdog+0x284/0x288
>> [ 27.529460] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (rk_gmac-dwmac): transmit queue 0
>> timed out
>
>
> I do not reproduce the WATCHDOG but i am continuing to look at the code
> to understand if normal descriptor management is ok or not. I keep you
> informed.
>
> Just an info, did you test with 2315acc6cf7f included? Just to
> understand if it is introducing a problem. It works in case of
> enhanced descriptors are used instead of.
>
>>
>>
>> https://git.collabora.com/cgit/user/tomeu/linux.git/log/?h=broken-eth-on-rock2
>
>
> thx I will take a look at this

Thanks.

Btw, I have rebased on top of 4.5 this morning and I have noticed that
88f8b1bb41c6 ("stmmac: Fix 'eth0: No PHY found' regression") got in
there, so I guess we have now a bunch of boards with broken network on
that release :(

Regards,

Tomeu

> Regards
> Peppe
>
>