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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] U-Boot Ethernet Troubles
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080111230035.00CE524656@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:34:55 GMT." <loom.20080111T194955-495@post.gmane.org>

In message <loom.20080111T194955-495@post.gmane.org> you wrote:
> In the process of porting uboot to an MPC8280 board I've run into a problem with
> Ethernet. Ping and tftpboot failed and after examining the connection with
> Wireshark I noticed the initial ARP request is malformed.  
...
> In porting uboot to other boards in the past I've witnessed memory
> initialization errors causing issues during Ethernet transactions, but I'm
> fairly confident in my DRAM initialization for this board.  

My initial bet would have been RAM issues, so if  you  are  not  101%
certain I recommend to re-check the initialization sequence.

> => tftpboot 0x100000 image
-----------------------^^^^^
> Trying FCC1 ETHERNET
> Using FCC1 ETHERNET device
> TFTP from server 10.1.1.12; our IP address is 10.1.1.26
> Filename 'StarsA3I2K'.
-----------^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That doesn't match - strange!

> Any ideas on potential problems or suggestions on steps for further debugging
> would be greatly appreciated.

Don't forget to check voltages, clocks, and clock routing!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-11 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-11 22:34 [U-Boot-Users] U-Boot Ethernet Troubles Kyle McDowell
2008-01-11 23:00 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]

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