[PATCH v2 3/3] gianfar: Implement workaround for eTSEC-A002 erratum
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Thu Jul 1 04:37:27 EST 2010
From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at mvista.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:39:15 +0400
> MPC8313ECE says:
>
> "If the controller receives a 1- or 2-byte frame (such as an illegal
> runt packet or a packet with RX_ER asserted) before GRS is asserted
> and does not receive any other frames, the controller may fail to set
> GRSC even when the receive logic is completely idle. Any subsequent
> receive frame that is larger than two bytes will reset the state so
> the graceful stop can complete. A MAC receiver (Rx) reset will also
> reset the state."
>
> This patch implements the proposed workaround:
>
> "If IEVENT[GRSC] is still not set after the timeout, read the eTSEC
> register at offset 0xD1C. If bits 7-14 are the same as bits 23-30,
> the eTSEC Rx is assumed to be idle and the Rx can be safely reset.
> If the register fields are not equal, wait for another timeout
> period and check again."
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at mvista.com>
Applied.
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