On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 10:51:12PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 23:07:00 +0300 > > From: Artturi Alm <[email protected]> > > > > On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 07:45:53PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > > Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:21:31 +0300 > > > > From: Artturi Alm <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > anyone else having issues with sxie? w/bsd.rd from latest snapshot > > > > it was unable to get ip from dhcpd even. > > > > > > > > this is what it does look like at the other side: > > > > > > > > 11:01:15.170089 e6:29:5b:e9:e6:29 5b:e9:e6:29:5b:e9 5be9 342: > > > > e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 > > > > e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 > > > > e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 > > > > e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 > > > > e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 > > > > e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 > > > > e629 5be9 e629 > > > > 11:01:15.170353 e6:29:5b:e9:e6:29 5b:e9:e6:29:5b:e9 5be9 342: > > > > e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 > > > > e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 > > > > e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 > > > > e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 > > > > e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 > > > > e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 e629 5be9 > > > > e629 5be9 e629 > > > > > > > > just to make sure there was nothing physically wrong in my setup, > > > > i attached usb-ethernet(axen), and got the ip like expected, this > > > > was in a row to the earlier garbage w/o rebooting in between. > > > > > > > > i haven't used it for like a year, so got no time frame when this > > > > has appeared, anyone w/ideas? > > > > -Artturi > > > > > > I'm upgrading my A10s-ALinuXino-Micro over sxie(4), so the driver > > > defenitely still works for me. > > > > > > > That's good. Do you know if u-boot did init it? In my case i'm quite > > sure the u-boot i used did not, and i'm now guessing just by quick > > look at sxie.c, that iirc. there was some ugly hack somewhere to enable > > the use of some sram section in memory for the emac, and since i saw no > > trace of that hack in sxie.c, maybe it was elsewhere and got cleaned up? > > meaning sxie would rely on u-boot to work? i'll test when i have a free > > sd-card, will let you know. > > Yes, U-Boot initializes the network interface.
Regression in /usr/local/share/u-boot/Cubieboard/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin, w/2017.03 it is working: U-Boot SPL 2017.03 (Apr 03 2017 - 12:27:12) DRAM: 1024 MiB CPU: 1008000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2 Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2017.03 (Apr 03 2017 - 12:27:12 -0600) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner A10 (SUN4I) Model: Cubietech Cubieboard I2C: ready DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial SCSI: SATA link 0 timeout. AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst Net: eth0: ethernet@01c0b000 and with current(.05) it doesn't: U-Boot SPL 2017.05 (Jul 11 2017 - 16:35:33) DRAM: 1024 MiB CPU: 1008000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2 Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2017.05 (Jul 11 2017 - 16:35:33 -0600) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner A10 (SUN4I) Model: Cubietech Cubieboard I2C: ready DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial SCSI: SATA link 0 timeout. AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst Net: No ethernet found. i guess that means, we either hope u-boot 2017.07 will fix this, or add the likely missing handling of "allwinner,sun4i-a10-sram-a3-a4"-compatible ? this is such a minor thing, that i hope you won't waste time on this anymore than deciding what should be done, and maybe ease my curiosity if the success you've had was w/2017.05 or not? :) i cc'ed maintaineri, as i failed to build .07, and in case he would have any news about progress w/upgrade to it? or if the u-boot changelog for between .05 and .07 has been considered unworthy of the port-update? -Artturi
