Try removing C24. See if that helps.

Gerald


On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 7:01 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> We are experiencing the same issue, using the A5 version. Roughly 1% to 3%
> of the times on boot up, the unit fails to find the PHY. On next boot up
>  works fine.On very very rare occasions, it will fail to find the PHY 2x in
> a row, but haven't seen that in a few days now since started driving
> SYS_Resetn as below. Before started driving the Sys_Resetn line, wold see
> it miss in the 10+% range.
>
> The startup SYS_Resetn glitch from the CPU has been observed on multiple
> units. To counter that we drove the SYS_Resetn line low { open collector }
> for 400 msec with occasional improvements, but the problem has never really
> gone away. Using the external open collector reset, we have also added an
> adiditonal 4K7 pullup to 3V3. We are also trying driving the line with an
> active 3V3 device rather than depending on the pullup..
>
> Don't think see any issues with the way 3V3 is coming up.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 17:49:47 UTC-5, Gerald wrote:
>
>> I am just now looking at this issue. The A6 revision was not put in place
>> to fix this issue.
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:22 PM, AndrewTaneGlen <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have noticed very rare cases (~1/50) of the ethernet phy on the
>>> Beaglebone Black not being detected on boot, and requiring a hard reset (as
>>> opposed to calling 'reset' from the command line) to get it to work/be
>>> detected again.
>>>
>>> This problem has been mentioned in a couple of other threads (below)
>>> concerning different topics (i.e. problems getting the BBB to boot, and the
>>> ethernet phy 'dying' some time after initially working fine), with no
>>> solution/workaround for this specific problem being suggested - so I
>>> thought I'd start a thread specifically for it.
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/beagleboard/
>>> Vp4pxwHm8BU/Iaw3p5xm0MoJ
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/aXv6An1xfqI
>>>
>>> In the first thread mlc/Mike discussed his response to the problem as
>>> follows:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *"I had issues with the network not coming up on boot, and it was
>>> traced down to problems with the SYS_RESETn line.  I had a level translator
>>> connected to SYS_RESETn, to drive a 5V chip. It was powered by a 5V rail.
>>> If the 5V rail powered up "differently" than the 3.3V rail (not sure of the
>>> exact relationship), I guess it  pulled the SYS_RESETn line to weird levels
>>> that affected the network chip but not the main processor. I'm now using a
>>> GPIO to drive the external 5V chip now, instead of the SYS_RESETn
>>> line. Anyway, the moral is be very, very careful with SYS_RESETn, because
>>> it  can cause hard-to-trace problems with networking.*"
>>>
>>> I see that the A6 Revision of the Beaglebone Black has some changes to
>>> the SYS_RESETn line:
>>>
>>> "*Based on notification from TI, in random instances there could be a
>>> glitch in the SYS_RESETn signal from the processor where the SYS_RESETn
>>> signal was taken high for a momentary amount of time before it was supposed
>>> to. To prevent this, the signal was ORed with the PORZn (Power On reset).*
>>> " (http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#
>>> Revision_A6_.28Production_Version.29)
>>>
>>> Is it likely that this modification will improve/resolve the issue I am
>>> seeing with the ethernt phy not resetting/powering-up correctly?, seeing as
>>> the SYS_RESETn signal also feeds into the nRST pin on the ethernet phy (The
>>> SYS_RESETn line is left untouched in my application).
>>>
>>>
>>> Some additional observations from dmesg concerning this use:
>>>
>>> On a good phy boot I see the following:
>>> [    2.810749] davinci_mdio 4a101000.mdio: davinci mdio revision 1.6
>>> [    2.817206] davinci_mdio 4a101000.mdio: detected phy mask fffffffe
>>> [    2.833517] libphy: 4a101000.mdio: probed
>>> [    2.837871] davinci_mdio 4a101000.mdio: phy[0]: device
>>> 4a101000.mdio:00, driver unknown
>>>
>>> Followed later by:
>>> [   21.286920] net eth0: initializing cpsw version 1.12 (0)
>>> [   21.301166] net eth0: phy found : id is : 0x7c0f1
>>>
>>> On a 'bad phy' boot I see the following (differences highlighted):
>>> [    2.806763] davinci_mdio 4a101000.mdio: davinci mdio revision 1.6
>>> [    2.813213] davinci_mdio 4a101000.mdio: detected phy mask *fffffffb*
>>> [    2.829512] libphy: 4a101000.mdio: probed
>>> [    2.833875] davinci_mdio 4a101000.mdio: phy[2]: device
>>> 4a101000.mdio:02, driver unknown
>>>
>>> Followed later by:
>>> [   21.346861] net eth0: initializing cpsw version 1.12 (0)
>>> [   21.354379] *libphy: PHY 4a101000.mdio:00 not found*
>>> [   21.359469] *net eth0: phy 4a101000.mdio:00 not found on slave 0*
>>>
>>>
>>> So it looks like the 'davinci_mdio_reset' function see the phy in both
>>> instances, but reports differently on the bad boot. I am not sure what to
>>> make of this.
>>>
>>> I am using the Debian 7.2 Rootfs and the 'RobertCNelson' kernel
>>> '3.12.0-bone8'.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Andrew.
>>>
>>>
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