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From: Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm•de>
To: Bill Farrow <BillF@optiscan•com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: MPC8560 Gianfar driver hangs after soft reboot
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:41:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <465C1185.7040204@anagramm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34E73CC1202BF246B7DE3463BEBC068998EE91@postie.optiscan.com>

Hello, Bill!

Bill Farrow schrieb:
> On 25 May 2007 Clemens Koller wrote:
>> Bill Farrow schrieb:
>>> The Gianfar driver is hanging during boot-up after a soft
>> reboot.  It works fine when the board is power cycled.
>>> Any hints on where to look further on this issue?
>> I have had some rare issues with PHY initialization on the
>> PM854 with the u-boot-1.2.0 not being able to download something via 
>> TFTP. There is an entry somewhere in the U-Boot wiki (I think) that 
>> the TQM8540 board can have some issues...
>> well the boards are quite similar.
>> Pushing the reset button (Never needed to power that off) solves the 
>> issue.
> 
> We have found a work around for this problem: If the network interfaces
> are disabled before doing a soft reboot then everything works properly.
> We are using the ramdisk from the ELDK 4.1 and are no rc scripts for
> busybox to call to shutdown the network interfaces before rebooting.  We
> will just add our own script to do this when rebooting.

Something like:

          /sbin/ip route del default
          /sbin/ip link set eth0 down
          /sbin/ip addr del 192.168.1.200/24 dev eth0
(or something similar using the ifconfig <foo>)

Or how do you define to "shutdown the network interfaces"?

I guess I am lucky that I always had rc scripts running on my system.
(native distribution on harddisk, based on http://crux.nu )

> Agreed. I did look at some future kernel versions to see what changes
> had been made to the gianfar source code, but your right, we should try
> some out on the actual hardware.

Yup, there were lots of changes, also in the PHY/MII interface.

> We are using the Microsys carrier board with the PM856 module and has
> been quite stable.

Same over here. It's good stuff!

Best greets,
-- 
Clemens Koller
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      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-29 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-25  2:58 MPC8560 Gianfar driver hangs after soft reboot Bill Farrow
2007-05-25 12:42 ` Clemens Koller
2007-05-29  7:13   ` Bill Farrow
2007-05-29 11:41     ` Clemens Koller [this message]

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