[GSoC] Ethernet support for beaglebone.

[Joel Sherrill]

What about the recommended debug method for BB's Ben?

--joel

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Ben Gras <beng at shrike-systems.com> wrote:

> I wasn't too involved with the beagle ethernet experiments, sorry.
>
> On 03/07/2017 06:29 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
>
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> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Nikolay Komashinskiy <
> nikolay.komashinskiy at yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I want to take a part in GSoC and provide a support for ethernet in
>> Beaglebone.
>> am I understand right, that for such a task a debugger is needed,
>> because, AFAIK,
>> uboot does some initializtion? So, running initialization routine after
>> uboot, we have
>> no ability to say whether ethernet works due to a correct sequence of our
>> steps, or
>> partly as a consequence of uboot initialization.
>>
>>
> I think Ethernet mostly works on BB's. There were some performance issues
> at one point
> related to UBoot version.  It was like a 10x difference. I think it was
> narrowed down to
> the initialization of the cache or MMU being different.
>
> I have cc'ed Ben Gras.He is more likely to remember the details.
>
> --joel
>
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