[U-Boot] Ethernet on PandaBoard

Tom Rini
2012-07-12T16:16:54Z

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 08:26:55AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2012-07-12 07:27, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >On 2012-07-12 07:20, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 07:17:59AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >>>On 2012-07-12 07:15, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>>>On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 07:06:02AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >>>>>On 2012-07-12 03:30, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>>>>>On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 02:20:18AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>>>>>>On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 07:08:50AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>I just tried rev 211e47549b668c7cdd8658c0413a272f0d0495d4 (v2012.07-rc1)
> >>>>>>>>for my PandaBoard. Sadly, this is failing when I try to use the onboard
> >>>>>>>>ethernet (EHCI USB based) controller:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Sorry for the late response, at a conference. This is a known problem
> >>>>>>>and we will either have this fixed soon (Ilya Yanok is working on a
> >>>>>>>series) or we will build-time disable dcache support on these boards and
> >>>>>>>fix this properly for the next release.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>In short, some cache clean-ups in ehci-hcd.c exposed other cache
> >>>>>>>problems on other platforms where our cache size is 64 not 32bytes.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I take it back, I forgot omap4 is 32byte cache. With the fix that
> >>>>>>Tetsuyuki Kobayashi pointed you at (oh, and a Tested-by to that thread
> >>>>>>if you can), can you please do a little stress testing of USB, to make
> >>>>>>sure things are otherwise really happy (eth and perhaps a USB stick)?
> >>>>>>Thanks alot!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Yesterday, this was working great. This morning, when I turned on
> >>>>>the board, it can no longer find anything on the USB bus - nothing at
> >>>>>all. This also applies to Linux when I boot from SD. I'm really
> >>>>>confused :-(
> >>>>>
> >>>>>If I boot the board using the 2011.06 U-Boot, all is happy again.
> >>>>>It looks like the USB HUB (USB3320) seems to be stuck in reset when
> >>>>>I use the latest U-Boot.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Ever hear of any problems like this?
> >>>>
> >>>>How about if you turn the dcache off at run or build time?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>Sorry for being thick, but how do I do that? I don't see any
> >>>cache manipulation commands in 'help'
> >>
> >>Looks like omap4 doesn't have CONFIG_CMD_CACHE set, so indeed you're
> >>missing 'dcache off' as a command. The other one is to add
> >>CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF to omap4_panda.h (or omap4_common.h) and rebuild.
> >>
> >
> >No difference, sorry.
> >
>
> After some poking around, I found that the GPIO pins used by the USB
> (GPIO_1 = hub power, GPIO_62 = hub reset) were not muxed at all. This
> left those signals (and many others) in strange limbo.
>
> Adding CONFIG_SYS_ENABLE_PADS_ALL brought it back to life and the network
> is working once more.

OK. Can you confirm if f3f98bb0b8cc520e08ea2bdfc3f9cbe4e4ac29f5 is what
breaks / unbreaks things? The USB pins are supposed to all be set
(1a89a217f5c5ab3645c80c1247e8911a8b5ad491) but perhaps some got missed.

--
Tom