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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:49:16 -0600
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] tsec: Wait for auto-negotiation to complete
 without link
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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