From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:26:50 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] AR8031 Ethernet on mx6 In-Reply-To: References: <505412DD.1020205@gmail.com> Message-ID: <201209152126.51169.marex@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Fabio Estevam, > Hi Dirk, > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Dirk Behme wrote: > > I think a coworker has an ARM2, so I'll try to ask him on Monday. > > Thanks for your help. > > > But while talking about ethernet on MX6: There seems to be a lot of > > issues with 1GB ethernet. Or is it just confusion? As I'm no expert on > > this, I'm really confused. That means that I don't know if we still > > really have some issues with it or not :( > > > > The initial SabreLite boards (revision from September/Octorber last > > year?) had a hardware issue with 1GB ethernet. I was told that this > > hardware issue is fixed in the latest SabreLite boards with hardware > > revision D. But a coworker reports that it looks like GB ethernet even > > doesn't work with the U-Boot the SabreLite revision D ships with (?). > > Nor a more recent (patched?) U-Boot. I'm not sure if the recent > > (unpatched) mainline was tested, though. So this might be an issue of an > > U-Boot version which has SW patches for the old, broken ethernet > > applied, which now breaks the fixed hardware? Or is there still an > > hardware issue? I don't know. > > I haven't worked with Gigabit Ethernet on mx6qsabrelite, but my > understanding is that it has been functional now in U-boot. > > Ccing Troy and Eric as they probably know all the details. It works for me, but I don't think it runs on "gigabit" speed. > Regards, > > Fabio Estevam Best regards, Marek Vasut