eth0 problem in imx28 evk

asifali · ‎10-30-2012

Hello all!

I have just been able to boot my imx287 evk from the sd card with 2.6.35 linux. The eth0 is not working properly in it. the light of eth0 blinks periodically. I try to assign it a static IP address and UP it. But i notice that after assigning the IP adress the ethernet can not be set to up state. Here is my command line result

root@freescale ~$ ifconfig eth0 up

net eth0: PHY already attached

eth0: Could not attach to PHY

ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy

Any body having any idea about this???? Do I need any configuration or what???

the result of ifconfig -a is shown in the attached file

Original Attachment has been moved to: imx28evk.txt.zip

asifali · ‎10-31-2012

So the problem was nothing more than power source. Initially I boot the imx28 evk from micro usb, it booted up properly but the power was not enough for proper working of ethernet.

Thanks Kirill for your interest. Hope you also had a good experience

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BrilliantovKiri · ‎10-30-2012

Hello, Ali!

Sorry, but I not understand you. In your post with network configuration interface eth0 have UP state.

This is not normal if interface change state without command, but this is may be possible if second side link disable interface. Please recheck or change second side your network link.

asifali · ‎10-31-2012

So the problem was nothing more than power source. Initially I boot the imx28 evk from micro usb, it booted up properly but the power was not enough for proper working of ethernet.

Thanks Kirill for your interest. Hope you also had a good experience

hake · ‎10-31-2012

can you measure the board current? I think this can be a proof.

BrilliantovKiri · ‎10-30-2012

Hello, Ali!

I think you have error in command, command should be ifconfig eth0 address up, e.g. ifconfig eth0 192.168.255.1 up .

asifali · ‎10-30-2012

Thanks Kirill for your reply.

I have tried this command as well. The ifconfig shows that the eth0 is up but the led of the eth0 is not blinking properly, i.e. blinking periodically not continously. Trying to ping from another host gives

destination host unreachable..

Any other suggestion

BrilliantovKiri · ‎10-30-2012

Hello, Ali!

Please post full output ifconfig and route and dmesg output with information about network interfaces , also you can check dmesg output on any errors linked with network.

asifali · ‎10-30-2012

Kirill here is the complete output of ifconfig..

root@freescale ~$ ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:9F:01:D1:5C

inet addr:192.168.1.240 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Base address:0x8000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:9F:01:D1:5D

BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

LOOPBACK MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

The output of the dmesg is

root@freescale ~$ dmesg

Linux version 2.6.35.3-571-gcca29a0 (r65388@shlinux3) (gcc version 4.4.4 (4.4.4_09.06.2010) ) #3 PREEMPT Mon Dec 27 09:18:26 CST 2010

CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=00053177

CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache

Machine: Freescale MX28EVK board

Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback

On node 0 totalpages: 32768

free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c0534f88, node_mem_map c0580000

DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap

DMA zone: 0 pages reserved

DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0

Normal zone: 224 pages used for memmap

Normal zone: 28448 pages, LIFO batch:7

Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512

Kernel command line: -e noinitrd console=ttyAM0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 rw rootwait ip=none gpmi

PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)

Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)

Memory: 128MB = 128MB total

Memory: 120220k/120220k available, 10852k reserved, 0K highmem

Virtual kernel memory layout:

vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)

fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB)

DMA : 0xfde00000 - 0xffe00000 ( 32 MB)

vmalloc : 0xc8800000 - 0xf0000000 ( 632 MB)

lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xc8000000 ( 128 MB)

modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)

.init : 0xc0008000 - 0xc0030000 ( 160 kB)

.text : 0xc0030000 - 0xc04f7000 (4892 kB)

.data : 0xc04f8000 - 0xc0535960 ( 247 kB)

SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1

Hierarchical RCU implementation.

RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs is disabled.

Verbose stalled-CPUs detection is disabled.

NR_IRQS:288

Console: colour dummy device 80x30

console [ttyAM0] enabled

Calibrating delay loop... 226.09 BogoMIPS (lpj=1130496)

pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301

Security Framework initialized

SELinux: Initializing.

SELinux: Starting in permissive mode

Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok

regulator: core version 0.5

NET: Registered protocol family 16

regulator: vddd: 800 <--> 1575 mV at 1500 mV fast normal

regulator: vdddbo: 800 <--> 1575 mV fast normal

regulator: vdda: 1500 <--> 2275 mV at 1800 mV fast normal

vddio = 3380000, val=10

regulator: vddio: 2880 <--> 3680 mV at 3380 mV fast normal

regulator: overall_current: fast normal

regulator: vbus5v:

regulator: mxs-duart-1: fast normal

regulator: mxs-bl-1: fast normal

regulator: mxs-i2c-1: fast normal

regulator: mmc_ssp-1: fast normal

regulator: mmc_ssp-2: fast normal

regulator: charger-1: fast normal

regulator: power-test-1: fast normal

regulator: cpufreq-1: fast normal

i.MX IRAM pool: 124 KB@0xc8820000

Initializing GPMI pins

usb DR wakeup device is registered

IMX usb wakeup probe

the wakeup pdata is 0xc0500c1c

audit: cannot initialize inotify handle

bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0

SCSI subsystem initialized

Freescale USB OTG Driver loaded, $Revision: 1.55 $

usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs

usbcore: registered new interface driver hub

usbcore: registered new device driver usb

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.

Switching to clocksource mxs clock source

NET: Registered protocol family 2

IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)

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

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)

TCP reno registered

UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

NET: Registered protocol family 1

RPC: Registered udp transport module.

RPC: Registered tcp transport module.

RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.

Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...

rootfs image is not initramfs (junk in compressed archive); looks like an initrd

Freeing initrd memory: 4096K

Bus freq driver module loaded

IMX usb wakeup probe

the wakeup pdata is 0xc05010cc

usb h1 wakeup device is registered

mxs_cpu_init: cpufreq init finished

audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)

type=2000 audit(0.670:1): initialized

VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2

Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)

msgmni has been set to 242

alg: No test for stdrng (krng)

cryptodev: driver loaded.

Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)

io scheduler noop registered

io scheduler deadline registered

io scheduler cfq registered (default)

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x30

mxs-duart.0: ttyAM0 at MMIO 0x80074000 (irq = 47) is a DebugUART

mxs-auart.0: ttySP0 at MMIO 0x8006a000 (irq = 112) is a mxs-auart.0

Found APPUART 3.1.0

mxs-auart.1: ttySP1 at MMIO 0x8006c000 (irq = 113) is a mxs-auart.1

Found APPUART 3.1.0

mxs-auart.2: ttySP2 at MMIO 0x8006e000 (irq = 114) is a mxs-auart.2

Found APPUART 3.1.0

mxs-auart.3: ttySP3 at MMIO 0x80070000 (irq = 115) is a mxs-auart.3

Found APPUART 3.1.0

brd: module loaded

loop: module loaded

i.MX GPMI NFC

NFC: Version 1, 8-chip GPMI and BCH

Boot ROM: Version 1, Single-chip boot area, block mark swapping supported

Scanning for NAND Flash chips...

No NAND device found.

gpmi-nfc gpmi-nfc.0: Chip scan failed

mxs-spi mxs-spi.0: Max possible speed 24000 = 24000000/2 kHz

mxs-spi mxs-spi.0: at 0x80014000 mapped to 0xF0014000, irq=84, bus 1, DMA ver_major 4

FEC Ethernet Driver

fec_enet_mii_bus: probed

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

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

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

fsl-ehci fsl-ehci: irq 93, io base 0x80080000

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

hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected

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

fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2

fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.0: irq 92, io base 0x80090000

fsl-ehci fsl-ehci.0: 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)

mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

input: mxs-kbd as /devices/platform/mxs-kbd.0/input/input0

input: MXS touchscreen as /devices/virtual/input/input1

MXS RTC driver v1.0 hardware v2.3.0

mxs-rtc mxs-rtc.0: rtc core: registered mxs-rtc as rtc0

IR NEC protocol handler initialized

IR RC5(x) protocol handler initialized

IR RC6 protocol handler initialized

IR JVC protocol handler initialized

IR Sony protocol handler initialized

Linux video capture interface: v2.00

mxs-pxp mxs-pxp.0: initialized

WARNING : No battery connected !

Aborting power driver initialization

mxs-battery: probe of mxs-battery.0 failed with error 1

mxs watchdog: initialized, heartbeat 19 sec

mxs-mmc: MXS SSP Controller MMC Interface driver

mxs-mmc mxs-mmc.0: mmc0: MXS SSP MMC DMAIRQ 82 ERRIRQ 96

Registered led device: led-pwm0

Registered led device: led-pwm1

dcp dcp.0: DCP crypto enabled.!

usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev

usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid

usbhid: USB HID core driver

sgtl5000-i2c 0-000a: SGTL5000 revision 17

mmc0: new SD card at address f995

mxs-spdif mxs-spdif.0: MXS SPDIF Audio Transmitter

No device for codec mxs spdif

No device for DAI mxs spdif

mmcblk0: mmc0:f995 SU02G 1.84 GiB

mmcblk0:

No device for DAI mxs-saif

No device for DAI mxs-spdif

p1 p2 p3

asoc: SGTL5000 <-> mxs-saif mapping ok

Failed to add route LINE_OUT->Ext Spk

asoc: mxs spdif <-> mxs-spdif mapping ok

ALSA device list:

#0: mxs-evk (SGTL5000)

#1: mxs-evk (mxs spdif)

TCP cubic registered

NET: Registered protocol family 17

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

NET: Registered protocol family 29

can: raw protocol (rev 20090105)

mxs-rtc mxs-rtc.0: setting system clock to 1970-01-01 00:00:05 UTC (5)

EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p3): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 179:3.

Freeing init memory: 160K

USB Host suspend begins

will suspend roothub and its children

ehci_fsl_bus_suspend, DR

host suspend ends

ehci_fsl_bus_suspend, Host 1

EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p3): error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 22844

EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p3): error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 680

EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p3): error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 239

EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p3): error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 680

EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p3): error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 22843

EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p3): error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 31422

EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p3): error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 7849

EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p3): error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 239

EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p3): error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 31422

EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p3): error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 22843

eth0: Freescale FEC PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=0:00, irq=-1)

BrilliantovKiri · ‎10-30-2012

Hello, Ali!

I not see any problem in your eth0 configuration and if you try ping host in 192.168.1.240/24 network I think you not should have any problem.

Another strange - interface eth0 not send and not get bytes. Please recheck patchcord and switch or network card on another side.

Because your board have second network interface you can try use it if primary not work.

asifali · ‎10-30-2012

Hey Kirill..

I just find out that the ethernet 0 interface does not stay up. after setting to up it goes down after a while and give the message that

Link is down

MDIO read timeout

Any suggestion now please????????

asifali · ‎10-30-2012

Thanks Kirill for your fast enough reply...

I am also amazed why doesn't it works. Let me change the power source and see what happens. this is all I can do because there is no other switch etc to be changed or reconfigured. I will let you know about the result..So be there..

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