Hi,
I've got a brand new MCIMX6Q-SDB board and downloaded the LTIB source package "i.MX 6Quad and i.MX 6Dual Linux GA BSP 3.0.35 Source Code Files". It compiles nicely and i can run my device either via LAN (tftp/nfs) or from SDCard.
When I boot purely from SD Card and remove the LAN cable it takes long minute when the ethernet driver is loaded and the system tries to do a DHCP request before this finally timeouts and the boot process completes. (Actually the whole process is even tried twice.) Here the output I see on the serial console additional comments about the waiting times.
....
eth0: Freescale FEC PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=1:01, irq=-1)
--- 120 seconds waiting
Sending DHCP requests ...... timed out!
--- 80 seconds waiting while the dots indicate that it does several retries
IP-Config: Reopening network devices...
eth0: Freescale FEC PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=1:01, irq=-1)
--- 120 seconds waiting
Sending DHCP requests ...... timed out!
IP-Config: Auto-configuration of network failed.
--- 80 seconds waiting while the dots indicate that it does several retries
...
When I plugin the LAN cable it is able to get network access immediately, do the DHCP request and runs through all this without delay.
Since our system will normally not have a LAN connection it is an important issue to avoid this >5 minutes waiting time during system boot.
I worked before with an IMX53 and could see that there was a small delay too but it was just a few seconds and also the repetition was not done.
I tried to find some configuration settings in LTIB but could not see anything obvious. This whole task seems to be done before the init process starts and the inittab/rcS scripts are executed. So how can I configure it?
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Uwe
