From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Scholz Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:02:15 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] SCC Ethernet and "Linux crashes by early packets" ??? In-Reply-To: <20040408213000.B30A4C133F@atlas.denx.de> References: <20040408213000.B30A4C133F@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: <407674A7.7040805@imc-berlin.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Wolfgang Denk wrote: > In message <40757661.50905@imc-berlin.de> you wrote: > >>the CHANGELOG contains the lines >> >>* Make sure SCC Ethernet is always stopped by the time we boot Linux >> to avoid Linux crashes by early packets coming in. >> >>in "Changes for U-Boot 1.0.2". >> >>My two question: >> >>1.) How can I find out which changes in the CVS do excactly this? > > Checking the CVS logs? Maybe I am to stupid. Of course I can find the line "Make sure SCC Ethernet is always stopped by the time we boot Linux" in the CVS logs. Actually it's there 128 times. But I could not find out which file excactly was changed for this purpose! > Try: cvs diff -r1.3 -r1.4 post/ether.c And I never thought of POST code! Thanks! >>2.) Do we need the same with 8xx FEC Ethernet? > > > I don't think so. Note that the ethernet interface was left in a non- > stopped state by the POST code. Normal network use will (should) > correctly shut down the interface. Hmm. Then I have another problem and start a new thread. Thanks. Steven