On 05:27-20210310, Dave Tucker wrote: > I have been using a Beaglebone Black for a project for years. I recently > upgraded from Dunfell to Gatesgarth and again began experiencing a problem > with the ethernet interface failing to come online 10% of the time, a problem > which can only be fixed by a power cycle (not a reboot). This is a well > known problem documented by this thread ( > https://groups.google.com/g/beagleboard/c/9mctrG26Mc8 ) going back over 7 > years. It's a hardware problem, but it does have a software fix. But that > fix must have been left out of recent meta-bbb builds. I believe previous > fixes have been something like this patch ( > https://github.com/RobertCNelson/bb-kernel/blob/607ae2e36477357a4bb222f285fd7460d5230ab9/patches/net/0009-cpsw-search-for-phy.patch > ). That old patch targets the 3.15 kernel and I believe Gatesgarth is using > 5.10. Should I expect that patch to work unmodified on 5.10? I don't know > low level kernel mechanics well enough to understand what it's really doing. > If that patch won't work, does anyone know how I could proceed to get > ethernet working on the Beaglebone Black with current versions of Yocto? > > Dave
Probably addressed in u-boot instead by [1] ? [1] https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/20c37fb1bfb9f20804645b2199699cd815a4d55c -- Regards, Nishanth Menon Key (0xDDB5849D1736249D) / Fingerprint: F8A2 8693 54EB 8232 17A3 1A34 DDB5 849D 1736 249D
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