On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Karsten Merker merker@debian.org wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 09:13:37AM +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:13:21 +0200 Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com wrote:
In order for the gmac nic to work reliable on the Bananapi, we need to poke these 2 undocumented bits in the gmac clk register. Since these are undocumented, this commit only sets these bits on the Bananapi for now.
I'll contact Allwinner to try and get these bits documented, once they are documented we can hopefully replace this hack with a better patch.
Could you please provide a bit more details in the commit message? What are the symptoms of the problem?
Without the patch, u-boot on the BananaPi shows massive packet loss on every network activity. The packet loss is so extreme that it is actually impossible to boot a kernel by tftp because u-boot gives up. The mainline kernel has (once booted) shown similar problems on the BananaPi.
How did you come to the idea to poke these bits?
The linux 3.4 kernel from https://github.com/LeMaker/linux-bananapi (which is a patched linux-sunxi.org 3.4 kernel) does not show this problem, so we started looking into what is different there, and the relevant change that was found was setting these particular undocumented bits.
File at issue here asking for the documentation https://github.com/allwinner-zh/documents
Does the GMAC driver in the linux kernel need a similar fix/workaround?
Not as far as I can see - once u-boot has set these two bits during system initialization, the mainline kernel works fine without any changes.
Also as mentioned in another e-mail http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2014-September/190096.html u-boot configures the "912MHz @1.4V" CPU clock frequency/voltage setup for sun7i hardware. And according to the information from Tony Zhang, this is supposed to be unreliable for the Banana Pi. So what happens to this GMAC bug if you just increase the dcdc2 voltage in u-boot (or reduce the CPU clock frequency)?
I can test that if you could tell me what would have to be changed in u-boot to do that.
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