[Buildroot] [PATCH/next 4/5] solidrun/macchiatobin: add new board

Sergey Matyukevich geomatsi at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 20:27:00 UTC 2017


Hi Antoine,

> > Thanks for detailed summary of mcbin networking support. However it sill looks
> > like there is a missing piece here. I have checked behavior of both mainline 4.14
> > (516fb7f2e73dcc) and marvell-mainline devel-4.14/all (a3d9036af3c6033). I did no
> > changes to kernel/dts/defconfig at all other than enabling Marvell PHYs for mainline
> > kernel. But the result is still the same: 1Gb eth2 interface works with devel-4.14/all,
> > but doesn't work with mainline. Though PHY is recognized and attached, mii-diag also
> > provides sane report. Tx packet counter in ifconfig is increased, but no packets
> > on wire.
> > 
> > Probably I am missing something obvious. I will do more checks and comparisons
> > later this week. Setup is just the same: mainline U-Boot 2017.09 and images
> > built using this patchset.
> 
> Note that I never tested with the upstream U-Boot. Do the interfaces
> work in U-Boot?

No, interfaces do not work in U-Boot. Probably U-Boot matters,
but even with the same mainline U-Boot interface eth2 works
just fine on devel-4.14/all kernel.

By the way, could you please advise how to switch eth0
from SFP to RJ45 when using mainline kernel 4.14 ?

Regards,
Sergey


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