440GX EMAC driver hang?

Eugene Surovegin ebs at ebshome.net
Thu Jun 30 02:48:52 EST 2005


On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:40:34AM -0400, Scott Coulter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am doing a Linux 2.6.11.11 port for a CPCI board with a 440GX
> processor on it.  Previously, I had successfully ported 2.6.11.11 to the
> board's predecessor running on a 440GP processor.  Due to limitations in
> this version of the PCB, EMAC ports 2 and 3 are not connected.  The
> standalone kernel comes up and gets into a BusyBox shell.  When I try to
> ifconfig the eth0 interface, the messages "eth0: Link is Up" and "eth0:
> Speed: 100, Full duplex." are displayed and then the target hangs.  I
> used the OCOTEA port as a pattern for my 440GP->440GX conversion.  The
> PHYs which are connected to EMAC ports 0 and 1 are the same PHYs as on
> the 440GP board (running in RMII mode).  I have tried to use the
> function "ocp_remove_one_device" to whack EMAC2 and EMAC3.  I am pretty
> sure that the removal worked as I no longer see init messages for those
> EMACs (previously I saw all four devices get initialized).  The MAL
> reports that it has "Initialized, 4 tx channels, 4 rx channels."  I used
> the function "ibm440gx_set_eth_grp" to force the Ethernets to both group
> 0 and group 1 configurations.  So far, nothing has worked.  Can anyone
> think of anything obvious that I am missing?  I know that the Ethernet
> ports are functional as I used TFTP with our ROM monitor package to
> download the zImage file.

You can try using 4xx NAPI EMAC driver I wrote some time ago.
It can be found at http://kernel.ebshome.net/ (there is a patch and 
GIT tree which is kept up to date).

You can enable debug and mail me trace log privately, and maybe I can 
help you debug your problem.

-- 
Eugene




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