[GSoC] Ethernet support for beaglebone.

[Hesham Almatary]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
> What about the recommended debug method for BB's Ben?
>
Worked on BBB a little bit, usually I use printf (over serial/FTDI [1]).

[1] http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBone_Black_Serial

> --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:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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