Ethernet fails on MPC5200 based target

[Sylvain Munaut]

Hi andrea,

Could you tell me exactly what kernel you use from me ? (a commit id
would do)
And did you write your own platform file ?

Maybe some things (like xlb pipelining, cache snooping, ...) is not properly
setup in you platform support code ?

Or maybe since the ethernet code currently only "knows" about the intel phy,
something is wrong in the "generic" phy code included in the driver itself.

    Sylvain


Andrea Galbusera wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem with ethernet on my MPC5200 based board.
>
> Ethernet is failing on my target with both 2.6.16.11-rt18 from Freescale
> BSP (based on the ltib tool) and 2.6.16-rc1-g7cdaf877 from Sylvain
> Munaut's git tree. On the opposite, it works fine with a relatively old
> (April 2006) 2.6.16 from Denx.
>
> What I see is that network is not working (corruption occur). I use a
> ramdisk rootfs to boot and I get an up-and-running system. Then, if I
> ping it from a remote host I get the following errors:
>
>   
>> ping 192.168.0.183 
>> PING 192.168.0.183 (192.168.0.183) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.183: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=8.00 ms
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.183: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.188 ms
>> wrong data byte #20 should be 0x14 but was 0xc0
>> #8      8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 c0 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e
>> 1f 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
>> #40     28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.183: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.217 ms
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.183: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.216 ms
>> wrong data byte #20 should be 0x14 but was 0x0
>> #8      8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 0 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f
>> 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
>> #40     28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.183: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.187 ms
>>     
>
> Since my target is heavily based on the Lite5200 I tryed all three
> kernels on the Lite5200 too and they all show working ethernet.
>
> This may suggest something related with the different phy hardware, but
> consider that the kernel from Denx works fine on it!
> My target hardware uses MPC5200B CPU and AMD NetPhy AM79C874 for the
> network phy.
>
> Can you suggest what source file may be responsible for this behaviour
> in order to dig the trees and maybe, hopefully, fix the problem? I tryed
> a first diffing between the Denx and the Freescale trees (this last one
> being mostly based on Sylvain's patches) but I can't figure out any
> reasonable answer.
>
> Consider I can't unfortunately switch to 2.6.16 from Denx because it
> does not support ATA/IDE that I need; also switching to the new powerpc
> architecture is not an option at moment, since it would require changes
> to the system at whole.
>
> TIA and let me know if you need more details
>
>
>