Your patch works. Thank you! This is the first time I post a bug report on a mailing list. I hope I have included the right recipients.
The network adapter of this board is affected by another bug for which I have found a partial solution. I will send a separate message to discuss the issue. 24 apr 2020, 14:04 da [email protected]: > 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 >
