PPC405gp enet Soft Reset

David Müller (ELSOFT AG) d.mueller at elsoft.ch
Mon Feb 11 22:55:05 EST 2002


Hi

andrew may wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:53:14AM +0000, Armin wrote:
>
>>Andrew & Stefan,
>>
>>The softrest could probably be removed from the _init.  its dup'd in _open.
>>
>
> Here is another problem I have with find_phy, that it seems that mii reads to
> reg 2 of a non-existent address does not return an error but a read to reg 3
> does.
>
> Here is a log from ppcboot since it is easy to test this there without doing
> a kernel build. My phy is at address 0x1f.
>
> => mii read 0x1 2
> 07FF
> => mii read 0x1 3
> read err 3
> a2: read: EMAC_STACR=0xffffc023, i=2
> Error reading from the PHY
> 07FF
>

I'm seeing this error too on our boards. But i'm not certain, if it's a
problem of the MII controller in the 405 or a problem of the LXT971.
What revision of the 405 do you have? What clock frequency your 405 run at?


Dave


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