Hi Andy,
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 04:11:22AM, Duan Fugang-B38611 wrote:
With flow control (FCE) feature, it depends on the hardware support. I.MX serial Ethernet ip (FEC, enet) can support the features, and it don't need to enable flow control in 100Mbps transition in fact. As our test result, if Ethernet rx bandwidth more than 140Mbps, FCE feature can be helpful to resolve FIFO overruns issue. In uboot, Ethernet has no the similar cases needed so big bandwidth, so it don't care FCE feature.
OK.
With fec_open enables full-duplex in TCR regardless of xcv_type, it is not reasonable. The good method must be use auto-negotiation and check phy duplex status, you can refer to net/mxc_fec.c file.
I agree. I don't have time to fix this right now. Perhaps you or someone else can handle this. There does not seem to be any bug tracking system in U-Boot, so I don't know if something specific should be done to report this. Anyway, this does not seem to be an issue for current hardware using this driver, so there is no emergency.
I also noticed that fec_eth_phy_config calls phy_connect with PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_RGMII regardless of xcv_type, which does not seem appropriate.
Best regards, Benoît