Bug#864562: No ethernet link on Olimex A20-Olinuxino Micro Rev. J, possibly PHY driver problem

[Jean-Louis MOUNIER <jean-louis.mounier@laposte.net>]

Hello Karsten,

I installed Stretch on my A20 with the USB network interface.

After a successfull minimal installation (on the Micro SD card), I 
configured eth0 and rebooted the system. The result is the same : the 
PHY is unable to get an IP address with DHCP.

The problem witch 4.9.0-3-armmp-lpae is the same as with the installer 
kernel.

Small information :

root@hendrix:~# dmesg |grep eth0
[   10.040210] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet eth0: fail to init PTP.
[   10.045905] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   12.117354] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 
100Mbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
[   12.117405] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready

I think I'll have to wait for a new kernel release...

Hope it helps

Regards

Jean-Louis