andrew may wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:03:59AM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > >>Andrew >> >> >>>I seem to be having a problem with the soft reset of EMAC >>>mode register when I have no ethernet connection to by phy. >>> >>We have the same problem (CPCI-405 with Intel LXT971 PHY). >> > > It is good to see that the problem is known. > > >>>After this code in init_ppc405_enet(void) the SRST bit does >>>not clear until after I stick in a cable. >>> >>See Chapter 19.7.1 in PPC405GP User Manual (EMAC0_MR0): >> > > The prelim hard copies I have been looking at failed to mention > the clocks need to be active, but I did check the pdf and it is > in there, so I guees I will try to look more at the soft copy these > days. > > >>It seems that we can't reset and setup the EMAC correctly without cable >>connected (no cable == no PHY clock!). So what do we do when this occurs? >>Disable the driver? >> > > Your joking right? To do that is less than a 10 line hack, that I had to do > to stop the driver from doing a panic or crashing, but I would not feel > good about sending that as a patch. The driver needs to be able to handle > this, but it will take some rework and it would be nice to know if there > is really a reason to do the SoftReset before probing the phy. > > > >
Andrew & Stefan, The softrest could probably be removed from the _init. its dup'd in _open. --armin ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
