On 29.03.2019 16:52, Stefan Roese wrote:
Hi Eugen,
On 29.03.19 15:40, Eugen.Hristev@microchip.com wrote:
I've noticed that the first ethernet packet after PHY link establishment is not tranferred correctly most of the time on my AT91SAM9G25 board. Here I usually see a timeout of a few seconds, which is quite annoying.
Adding a small delay (10ms in this case) after the link establishment helps to solve this problem. With this patch applied, this timeout on the first packet is not seen any more.
Hi Stefan,
I find this a bit odd... maybe someone with a different board having this Ethernet controller can confirm or infirm this ?
I've seen such issues of timeouts with the first ethernet packet after link negotiation on other platforms / controllers a few times before in U-Boot. Using a short delay after link-up always did help here.
I'm not saying that this is the perfect solution, but its one that works and removes these timeouts, which really annoy me.
Linux driver for macb has a similar issue ?
Not that I am aware of. There might be some delay in the link establishment hidden as well. I did not check yet.
Adding a delay just for the sake of it might hide another issue that we are missing at this point: why exactly transfer fails right away... it is likely that we want to send packets but link in fact is not ready ?
Yes, something like this.
I see there is a small udelay below your code, you add a delay 100 times bigger... maybe that small delay is related ?
Or any reason why the packet is not correctly transferred? Do you see errors on the line or the packet vanishes completely ? What kind of packet is this first one ? Does it depend on the packet type ?
I did not check too closely, as this issue was so similar to the ones I've seen before in U-Boot (see above). It happens upon "ping" and "tftp" - that's what I did test with.
Sorry for maybe asking too many questions.
No need to be sorry. If this can be solved in another perhaps cleaner way, I'll gladly use another solution.
I have added Nicolas and Claudiu who have more experience with macb on at91 boards
Sure, let's see what others have to say on this. Did someone else notice these timeouts resulting in quite big delays?
Thanks, Stefan