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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] tsec: Wait for auto-negotiation to complete without link
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:49:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <498A0D5C.5060901@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2acbd3e40902041320l3bce93c1p989c4c33ca8e7ae@mail.gmail.com>

Andy Fleming wrote:
> Hmmm....I made that change for a reason.  Waiting for autonegotiation
> to finish on a tsec with no link was quite tiresome.  If you've hooked
> up the 4th tsec, and try to boot, you end up waiting for *three* tsecs
> to timeout.  If dhcp fails because the link isn't up you can always
> try again, or add a delay before dhcp starts so that the link is up.
> 
> I'm open to other suggestions, but I really don't want to go back to
> the old behavior.

Is there any way that you could do the auto-negotiation in parallel?

Better yet if you could send bootp/dhcp requests to each one as it comes 
up, and abort the process upon the first valid bootp/dhcp reply.

-Scott

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-04 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-04 21:14 [U-Boot] [PATCH] tsec: Wait for auto-negotiation to complete without link Peter Tyser
2009-02-04 21:20 ` Andy Fleming
2009-02-04 21:26   ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-02-04 21:45     ` Peter Tyser
2009-02-04 23:07     ` Andy Fleming
2009-02-05 16:27       ` Peter Tyser
2009-02-06 13:32         ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-02-06 18:49           ` Andy Fleming
2009-02-06 19:30             ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-02-10  0:56               ` Andy Fleming
2009-02-10 13:59                 ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-02-10 17:31                   ` Scott Wood
2009-02-25 20:30                     ` Peter Tyser
2009-02-04 21:49   ` Scott Wood [this message]
2009-02-04 21:58     ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-02-04 22:00       ` Scott Wood
2009-02-04 22:19         ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-02-06 13:16       ` Jerry Van Baren
2009-02-06 17:16         ` Ben Warren
2009-07-19 20:14 ` Peter Tyser
2009-08-04 22:50   ` Peter Tyser
2009-08-21 17:04     ` Peter Tyser
2009-08-21 17:35 ` Ben Warren

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