Quoting Dominique Dumont (2020-07-22 13:38:21) > On Wednesday, 22 July 2020 09:53:42 CEST Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Any news on proposing your bugfix to mainline u-boot, Dominique? > > I've seen that this issue and the fix I've applied were discussed > extensively back in 2016 in this thread: > - https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-March/248498.html > > The conclusion of the thread above was to add > CONFIG_RTL8211X_PHY_FORCE_MASTER config parameter. Which was done with : > https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-March/249734.html > > So I did not create a pull request. Interesting thread but [seemingly about rev. C], not rev. G or rev. K. [seemingly about rev. C]: Michael Haas mentions at https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-March/249087.html that his data makes sense when compared with RTL8211CL datasheept and not with RTL8211E datasheet, and LIME2 rev. C is the only officially released LIME2 revision with RTL8211CL PHY according to https://github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO/blob/master/HARDWARE/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2/hardware_revision_changes_log.txt > Note that setting CONFIG_RTL8211X_PHY_FORCE_MASTER parameter did > not fix my Lime2 rev K board: > - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=911560#96 CONFIG_RTL8211X_PHY_FORCE_MASTER only affects rev. C, not G2 or K since u-boot v2017.01: https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/cebf3f5 I have now added a list of known unexplored workarounds/fixes to https://linux-sunxi.org/Olimex_A20-OLinuXino-Lime2#GMAC_quirks > > How did you reach the value "3" for the bugfix? Did you test multiple > > values or followed advice from somewhere and could confirm that it was > > an improvement? > > I used the value shown at the beginning of this bug report: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=911560#15 > > I've not tested other values. Thanks, that is helpful. > Since then, I've been side-tracked by some career changes [1] and did > not investigate further this issue. > > All the best > > [1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dominique-dumont-grenoble_dominique-dumont-code-straight-activity-6689877896800079872-a1j3 Oh, exciting! Enjoy your new life as independent. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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