On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 08:59:11AM -0500, Jerry Van Baren wrote: > That is my reasoning behind my statement that we can generally ignore > the autonegotiation <-> fixed configuration case because the odds of it > working properly are poor anyway.
I'm not fond of giving up any ability to support a configuration just because some people get it wrong (including configurations where the human *can't* screw it up because the fixed end is some old hub or NIC that doesn't support anything other than 10Mbit, half-duplex), especially when the benefit of not supporting it is so low. > Having said all that, I don't have any problem with using 3.5 seconds as > the safe timeout value. it isn't worth timing out too soon just to > shave 0.5 or even 1.0 seconds off the negotiation timeout time. OK, good. :-) -Scott _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
