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


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