eth0: Freescale FEC PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=1:01, irq=-1) Sending DHCP requests .

[xiaobinwu]

If there anyone meet the following problem when debug the Ethernet with the IMX6Q and AR8031 on IMX6Q-SABRESD-SDB board?

I have program the kernel source code and the uboot source code with the L3.0.35_4.1.0_130816_source.tar.gz . Then I program the kernel image and uboot image with the source code . I download the Image ,uboot.bin and the rootfs.tar.bz2 with Mfgtools. Then I boot the Linux system after I config the boot mode .

Now ,the crystal oscillator around the AR8031 has been up with 25 MHz. But the message display on the console as follows.

U-Boot 2009.08 (Dec 04 2015 - 22:49:34)

CPU: Freescale i.MX6 family TO1.5 at 792 MHz

Thermal sensor with ratio = 184

Temperature:   24 C, calibration data 0x58f4d97d

mx6q pll1: 792MHz

mx6q pll2: 528MHz

mx6q pll3: 480MHz

mx6q pll8: 50MHz

ipg clock     : 66000000Hz

ipg per clock : 66000000Hz

uart clock    : 80000000Hz

cspi clock    : 60000000Hz

ahb clock     : 132000000Hz

axi clock : 264000000Hz

emi_slow clock: 132000000Hz

ddr clock     : 528000000Hz

usdhc1 clock  : 198000000Hz

usdhc2 clock  : 198000000Hz

usdhc3 clock  : 198000000Hz

usdhc4 clock  : 198000000Hz

nfc clock     : 24000000Hz

Board: i.MX6Q-SABRESD: unknown-board Board: 0x63015 [POR ]

Boot Device: MMC

I2C: ready

DRAM: 1 GB

MMC: FSL_USDHC: 0,FSL_USDHC: 1,FSL_USDHC: 2,FSL_USDHC: 3

In: serial

Out: serial

Err: serial

Net: got MAC address from IIM: 00:00:00:00:00:00

FEC0 [PRIME]

Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

mmc3(part 0) is current device

MMC read: dev # 3, block # 2048, count 8192 ... 8192 blocks read: OK

## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 10800000 ...

Image Name: Linux-3.0.35-2666-gbdde708

Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)

Data Size:    3866408 Bytes =  3.7 MB

Load Address: 10008000

Entry Point:  10008000

Verifying Checksum ... OK

Loading Kernel Image ... OK

OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.

Linux version 3.0.35-2666-gbdde708 (root@ubuntu) (gcc version 4.6.2 20110630 (prerelease) (Freescale MAD -- Linaro 2011.07 -- Built at 2011/08/10 09:20) ) #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 4 18:52:06 PST 2015

CPU: ARMv7 Processor [412fc09a] revision 10 (ARMv7), cr=10c53c7d

CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache

Machine: Freescale i.MX 6Quad/DualLite/Solo Sabre-SD Board

Ignoring unrecognised tag 0x54410008

Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writealloc

CPU identified as i.MX6Q, unknown revision

PERCPU: Embedded 7 pages/cpu @8c008000 s5440 r8192 d15040 u32768

Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 194560

Kernel command line: console=ttymxc0,115200 ip=dhcp root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait

PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)

Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)

Memory: 512MB 256MB = 768MB total

Memory: 765764k/765764k available, 282812k reserved, 0K highmem

Virtual kernel memory layout:

vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)

fixmap  : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000   ( 896 kB)

DMA     : 0xf4600000 - 0xffe00000   ( 184 MB)

vmalloc : 0xc0800000 - 0xf2000000 ( 792 MB)

lowmem  : 0x80000000 - 0xc0000000   (1024 MB)

pkmap   : 0x7fe00000 - 0x80000000   (   2 MB)

modules : 0x7f000000 - 0x7fe00000 (  14 MB)

.init : 0x80008000 - 0x8003c000 ( 208 kB)

.text : 0x8003c000 - 0x80a8f8f4 (10575 kB)

.data : 0x80a90000 - 0x80af3e40 ( 400 kB)

.bss : 0x80af3e64 - 0x80b41d8c   ( 312 kB)

SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1

Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.

NR_IRQS:624

MXC GPIO hardware

sched_clock: 32 bits at 3000kHz, resolution 333ns, wraps every 1431655ms

arm_max_freq=1GHz

MXC_Early serial console at MMIO 0x2020000 (options '115200')

bootconsole [ttymxc0] enabled

Console: colour dummy device 80x30

Calibrating delay loop... 1581.05 BogoMIPS (lpj=7905280)

pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301

Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok

hw perfevents: enabled with ARMv7 Cortex-A9 PMU driver, 7 counters available

CPU1: Booted secondary processor

CPU2: Booted secondary processor

CPU3: Booted secondary processor

Brought up 4 CPUs

SMP: Total of 4 processors activated (6324.22 BogoMIPS).

print_constraints: dummy:

NET: Registered protocol family 16

print_constraints: vddpu: 725 <--> 1300 mV at 700 mV fast normal

print_constraints: vddcore: 725 <--> 1300 mV at 1150 mV fast normal

print_constraints: vddsoc: 725 <--> 1300 mV at 1200 mV fast normal

print_constraints: vdd2p5: 2000 <--> 2775 mV at 2400 mV fast normal

print_constraints: vdd1p1: 800 <--> 1400 mV at 1100 mV fast normal

print_constraints: vdd3p0: 2625 <--> 3400 mV at 3000 mV fast normal

hw-breakpoint: found 6 breakpoint and 1 watchpoint registers.

hw-breakpoint: 1 breakpoint(s) reserved for watchpoint single-step.

hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 4 bytes.

L310 cache controller enabled

l2x0: 16 ways, CACHE_ID 0x410000c7, AUX_CTRL 0x02070000, Cache size: 1048576 B

bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0

mxs-dma mxs-dma-apbh: initialized

print_constraints: SPKVDD: 4200 mV

print_constraints: vmmc: 3300 mV

SCSI subsystem initialized

spi_imx imx6q-ecspi.0: probed

usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs

usbcore: registered new interface driver hub

usbcore: registered new device driver usb

Freescale USB OTG Driver loaded, $Revision: 1.55 $

mc_pfuze 1-0008: recv failed!:-5,80

mc_pfuze: probe of 1-0008 failed with error -1

imx-ipuv3 imx-ipuv3.0: IPU DMFC NORMAL mode: 1(0~1), 5B(4,5), 5F(6,7)

imx-ipuv3 imx-ipuv3.1: IPU DMFC NORMAL mode: 1(0~1), 5B(4,5), 5F(6,7)

mxc_mipi_csi2 mxc_mipi_csi2: i.MX MIPI CSI2 driver probed

mxc_mipi_csi2 mxc_mipi_csi2: i.MX MIPI CSI2 dphy version is 0x3130302a

MIPI CSI2 driver module loaded

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.

Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16

NET: Registered protocol family 31

Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized

Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized

Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized

Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized

cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain

max17135 2-0048: PMIC MAX17135 for eInk display

i2c-core: driver [max17135] using legacy suspend method

i2c-core: driver [max17135] using legacy resume method

Switching to clocksource mxc_timer1

NET: Registered protocol family 2

IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)

TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)

TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 786432 bytes)

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)

TCP reno registered

UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

NET: Registered protocol family 1

RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.

RPC: Registered udp transport module.

RPC: Registered tcp transport module.

RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.

PMU: registered new PMU device of type 0

Static Power Management for Freescale i.MX6

wait mode is enabled for i.MX6

cpaddr = c0880000 suspend_iram_base=c091c000

PM driver module loaded

IMX usb wakeup probe

add wake up source irq 75

IMX usb wakeup probe

cpu regulator mode:ldo_enable

1. i.MXC CPU frequency driver

JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.

msgmni has been set to 1495

alg: No test for stdrng (krng)

io scheduler noop registered

io scheduler deadline registered

io scheduler cfq registered (default)

mxc_mipi_dsi mxc_mipi_dsi: i.MX MIPI DSI driver probed

MIPI DSI driver module loaded

mxc_sdc_fb mxc_sdc_fb.0: register mxc display driver ldb

_regulator_get: get() with no identifier

imx-ipuv3 imx-ipuv3.1: IPU DMFC DP HIGH RESOLUTION: 1(0,1), 5B(2~5), 5F(6,7)

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48

mxc_sdc_fb mxc_sdc_fb.1: register mxc display driver ldb

mxc_sdc_fb mxc_sdc_fb.2: register mxc display driver lcd

mxc_sdc_fb mxc_sdc_fb.3: register mxc display driver ldb

mxc_sdc_fb mxc_sdc_fb.3: ipu1-di0 already in use

mxc_sdc_fb: probe of mxc_sdc_fb.3 failed with error -16

imx-sdma imx-sdma: loaded firmware 1.1

imx-sdma imx-sdma: initialized

Serial: IMX driver

imx-uart.2: ttymxc2 at MMIO 0x21ec000 (irq = 60) is a IMX

imx-uart.0: ttymxc0 at MMIO 0x2020000 (irq = 58) is a IMX

console [ttymxc0] enabled, bootconsole disabled

console [ttymxc0] enabled, bootconsole disabled

loop: module loaded

No sata disk.

m25p80 spi0.0: unrecognized JEDEC id ffffff

GPMI NAND driver registered. (IMX)

vcan: Virtual CAN interface driver

CAN device driver interface

flexcan netdevice driver

FEC Ethernet Driver

fec_enet_mii_bus: probed

ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver

fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.0: Freescale On-Chip EHCI Host Controller

fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.0: irq 75, io base 0x02184000

fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00

hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected

add wake up source irq 72

fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.1: Freescale On-Chip EHCI Host Controller

fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2

fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.1: irq 72, io base 0x02184200

fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.1: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00

hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 2-0:1.0: 1 port detected

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...

usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage

USB Mass Storage support registered.

ARC USBOTG Device Controller driver (1 August 2005)

mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

input: gpio-keys as /devices/platform/gpio-keys/input/input0

input: max11801_ts as /devices/platform/imx-i2c.1/i2c-1/1-0048/input/input1

egalax_ts 1-0004: egalax_ts: failed to read firmware version

egalax_ts: probe of 1-0004 failed with error -5

egalax_ts 2-0004: egalax_ts: failed to read firmware version

egalax_ts: probe of 2-0004 failed with error -5

elan - Read Hello Packet Failed

elan-touch: probe of 2-0010 failed with error -22

i2c-core: driver [isl29023] using legacy suspend method

i2c-core: driver [isl29023] using legacy resume method

snvs_rtc snvs_rtc.0: rtc core: registered snvs_rtc as rtc0

i2c /dev entries driver

Linux video capture interface: v2.00

mxc_v4l2_output mxc_v4l2_output.0: V4L2 device registered as video16

mxc_v4l2_output mxc_v4l2_output.0: V4L2 device registered as video17

mxc_v4l2_output mxc_v4l2_output.0: V4L2 device registered as video18

mxc_v4l2_output mxc_v4l2_output.0: V4L2 device registered as video19

mxc_v4l2_output mxc_v4l2_output.0: V4L2 device registered as video20

mag3110 2-000e: check mag3110 chip ID

mag3110 2-000e: read chip ID 0xfffffffb is not equal to 0xc4!

mag3110: probe of 2-000e failed with error -22

i2c-core: driver [mag3110] using legacy suspend method

i2c-core: driver [mag3110] using legacy resume method

mma8451 0-001c: read chip ID 0x1 is not equal to 0x1a or 0x2a!

mma8451: probe of 0-001c failed with error -22

imx2-wdt imx2-wdt.0: IMX2+ Watchdog Timer enabled. timeout=60s (nowayout=1)

Bluetooth: Virtual HCI driver ver 1.3

Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.2

Bluetooth: HCIATH3K protocol initialized

Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.6

usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb

sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver

sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman

mmc0: SDHCI controller on platform [sdhci-esdhc-imx.3] using DMA

mmc1: SDHCI controller on platform [sdhci-esdhc-imx.1] using DMA

mmc2: SDHCI controller on platform [sdhci-esdhc-imx.2] using DMA

mxc_vdoa mxc_vdoa: i.MX Video Data Order Adapter(VDOA) driver probed

VPU initialized

mxc_asrc registered

Galcore version 4.6.9.6622

Thermal calibration data is 0x58f4d97d

Thermal sensor with ratio = 184

Anatop Thermal registered as thermal_zone0

anatop_thermal_probe: default cooling device is cpufreq!

usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid

usbhid: USB HID core driver

usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio

mxc_hdmi_soc mxc_hdmi_soc.0: MXC HDMI Audio

Cirrus Logic CS42888 ALSA SoC Codec Driver

i2c-core: driver [cs42888] using legacy suspend method

i2c-core: driver [cs42888] using legacy resume method

imx-hdmi-soc-dai imx-hdmi-soc-dai.0: Failed: Load HDMI-video first.

wm8962 0-001a: Failed to get supply 'DCVDD': -19

wm8962 0-001a: Failed to request supplies: -19

wm8962 0-001a: asoc: failed to probe CODEC wm8962.0-001a: -19

asoc: failed to instantiate card wm8962-audio: -19

imx_3stack asoc driver

Initialize HDMI-audio failed. Load HDMI-video first!

ALSA device list:

mmc0: new high speed DDR MMC card at address 0001

mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 SEM08G 7.39 GiB

mmcblk0boot0: mmc0:0001 SEM08G partition 1 2.00 MiB

mmcblk0boot1: mmc0:0001 SEM08G partition 2 2.00 MiB

mmcblk0: p1

  No soundcards found.

NET: Registered protocol family 26

mmcblk0boot1: unknown partition table

TCP cubic registered

mmcblk0boot0: unknown partition table

NET: Registered protocol family 17

can: controller area network core (rev 20090105 abi 8)

NET: Registered protocol family 29

can: raw protocol (rev 20090105)

can: broadcast manager protocol (rev 20090105 t)

Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized

Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized

Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11

Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3

Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast

Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2

lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers

VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 30 variant 9 rev 4

Bus freq driver module loaded

Bus freq driver Enabled

mxc_dvfs_core_probe

DVFS driver module loaded

regulator_init_complete: SPKVDD: incomplete constraints, leaving on

snvs_rtc snvs_rtc.0: setting system clock to 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (0)

eth0: Freescale FEC PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=1:01, irq=-1)

Sending DHCP requests .

.

timed out!

IP-Config: Reopening network devices...

eth0: Freescale FEC PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=1:01, irq=-1)

timed out!

IP-Config: Auto-configuration of network failed.

^AEXT3-fs: barriers not enabled

kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds

EXT3-fs (mmcblk0p1): using internal journal

EXT3-fs (mmcblk0p1): recovery complete

EXT3-fs (mmcblk0p1): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode

VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) on device 179:1.

Freeing init memory: 208K

starting pid 1466, tty '': '/etc/rc.d/rcS'

Mounting /proc and /sys

Starting the hotplug events dispatcher udevd

udevd (1475): /proc/1475/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/1475/oom_score_adj instead.

Synthesizing initial hotplug events

Setting the hostname to freescale

Mounting filesystems

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

mount: mounting usbfs on /proc/bus/usb failed: No such file or directory

starting pid 3137, tty '': '/etc/rc.d/rc_gpu.S'

starting pid 3143, tty '': '/etc/rc.d/rc_mxc.S'

arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Freescale MAD -- Linaro 2011.07 -- Built at 2011/08/10 09:20) 4.6.2 20110630 (prerelease)

root filesystem built on Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:01:55 -0500

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

freescale login: root

login[3145]: root login on 'ttymxc0'

root@freescale ~$ ping 192.168.1.123

PING 192.168.1.123 (192.168.1.123): 56 data bytes

ping: sendto: Network is unreachable

root@freescale ~$

The boot process block at the information “eth0: Freescale FEC PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=1:01, irq=-1)  Sending DHCP requests .” for a long time. The information displays on the console means what ?

Now I can not make sure if there is something wrong with the software or the hardware or both .

How can I solve the problem?

Someone else have meet the problem?

[bpe · Accepted solution]

Your boot process blocks because you specified ip=dhcp on your kernel parameter line and there is no DHCP server on the network.

Possible solutions:

1. Connect your  board to a network with an active DHCP server before booting.

2. Remove ip=dhcp token from the kernel parameter line. IP address can be assigned later by init scripts or manually.

3. Specify a valid IP address on the kernel parameter line. See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt in the kernel source

    code top directory for details

Have a great day,
Platon

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[xiaobinwu]

Dear Platon,

     Thank you for your answer!

      Let me have a try with your answer!

Have a good day!

xiaobin wu