Hi Dario, On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:27:23 +0200 (CEST) Dario [email protected] wrote:
> Hello, > > On 2017/02/07 commit af2cbfd6b982f7a52414ea50b2ece0290d4b748f broke gigabit > ethernet for Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2. This commit likely prevents the > activation of the option CONFIG_RTL8211X_PHY_FORCE_MASTER needed for proper > gigabit networking on this device. Since the only modification introduced by > this commit was moving Kconfig files, I suspect this change may affect many > more devices as well for which proper build options may not be enabled. > > Apart from how this went unnoticed for such a long time, what really puzzles > me is commit 8728c97eff5bd95f58320f886ae305f17931a374 submitted on 2017/03/13 > which removes CONFIG_RTL8211X_PHY_FORCE_MASTER from > configs/A20-OLinuXino-Lime2_defconfig altogether. since the first mentioned commit CONFIG_RTL8211X_PHY_FORCE_MASTER depends on CONFIG_PHY_REALTEK, but this was not enabled in board defconfig. This is probably the reason why it was dropped in 8728c97eff5b. > I think it is not by chance that Arch Linux ARM kept the package > uboot-a20-olinuxino-lime2 at version 2017.01-2 which is the last working > version before the aforementioned commit broke gigabit ethernet for this > board. > > My A20-OLinuXino-Lime2 is the only device I have available for testing. My > fear is that many more devices may be affected since this same option was > removed from A20-Olimex-SOM-EVB_defconfig as well along with several other > options from many other devices. Please test patch [1]. If it helps, we can see how to fix other boards. When reporting, please also Cc board maintainers (see board/sunxi/MAINTAINERS). Thanks! [1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/[email protected]/ -- Anatolij
