Re: [PATCH 3/3] hw/arm: sabrelite: Connect the Ethernet PHY at address 6

[Alex Bennée]

Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
>
> At present, when booting U-Boot on QEMU sabrelite, we see:
>
>   Net:   Board Net Initialization Failed
>   No ethernet found.
>
> U-Boot scans PHY at address 4/5/6/7 (see board_eth_init() in the
> U-Boot source: board/boundary/nitrogen6x/nitrogen6x.c). On the real
> board, the Ethernet PHY is at address 6. Adjust this by updating the
> "fec-phy-num" property of the fsl_imx6 SoC object.
>
> With this change, U-Boot sees the PHY but complains MAC address:
>
>   Net:   using phy at 6
>   FEC [PRIME]
>   Error: FEC address not set.
>
> This is due to U-Boot tries to read the MAC address from the fuse,
> which QEMU does not have any valid content filled in. However this
> does not prevent the Ethernet from working in QEMU. We just need to
> set up the MAC address later in the U-Boot command shell, by:
>
>   => setenv ethaddr 00:11:22:33:44:55
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

As you are giving this board some attention is there any chance you
could be persuaded to add an entry in docs/system/arm (linked from
docs/system/target-arm.rst) to briefly describe the board and what is
known to work and boot on it?

-- 
Alex Bennée