[uClinux-dev] Re: fec patch problems

[Michael Broughton]

NZG wrote:
> Well, just the other day I put our 5282 board into a high traffic enviornment 
> that repeatedly and reliably knocks down it's connection until reboot in just 
> a couple minutes.
> (I do have the cache enabled but I don't see how the processor would be much 
> use without it)
> If this driver fixes that problem then thank you sir for submitting it.
> I will continue testing.
>   

The data cache is the most likely source of your problem. The original 
FEC driver will not operate correctly when the data cache is enabled.


> I certainly would, expecially in the cryptography realm, it would be nice if 
> dropbear could establish a connection in a decent time frame, but that may 
> just be dropbear.
> I did some SSL stuff recently and didn't have nearly the lag I got on 
> dropbear.
>   

RSA is really slow on the 5282, in my experience. If you don't mind 
turning off DH, that can make a bit of an improvement.


> Probing would be best, but I think a subconfiguration option would be fine to, 
> since the standard snapgear build process is board-centric a configuration 
> option seems completely reasonable.
>   

Well, the PHY layer does probe the MII bus. The problem is, if there is 
more than one PHY, how do you choose the right one?

For now I will change the Kconfig file so that you can specify the PHY 
id at config time.


> thank you for responding so quickly!
> Nathan Z. Gustavson
> Systems Engineer
> EMAC.Inc -www.emacinc.com
>   

No problem.

Mike