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Bug#864562: u-boot: broken ethernet support on Olimex A20-Olinuxino-Micro Rev. J

From	Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#864562: u-boot: broken ethernet support on Olimex A20-Olinuxino-Micro Rev. J
Date	2017-12-07 20:30 +0100
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control: reassign 864562 u-boot-sunxi
control: retitle 864562 u-boot: broken ethernet support on Olimex A20-Olinuxino-Micro Rev. J
control: tags 864562 patch

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:45:57PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 09:39:36PM +0200, Jean-Louis Mounier wrote:

[Ethernet not working on Olimex A20-Olinuxino Micro Rev. J]
> > I discovered a new installer release but the bug is still
> > present.
> > 
> > Now the test :
> > 
> > => gpio clear PA17
> > gpio: pin PA17 (gpio 17) value is 0
> > =>run bootcmd
> > 
> > after that, the installer got IPV4 and IPV6 addresses wwith DHCP and then
> > ran fine.
> > 
> > Hope it helps
> 
> Yes, that helps as it confirms that a change in u-boot alone is
> enough to work around the issue in Linux as well (although it is
> debateable whether the kernel should rely on the bootloader in
> this case or not).  There has recently been an attempt to address
> the issue in mainline u-boot, but that didn't work out as planned
> and the patch got rejected:
> 
> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2017-September/307778.html

Hello,

a patch to address this issue has finally been accepted today by
the upstream u-boot custodian for the sunxi platform, targeting
u-boot v2018.01:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/833763/

Vagrant, could you include the patch in the next u-boot package
upload?

Regards,
Karsten
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Bug#864562: u-boot: broken ethernet support on Olimex A20-Olinuxino-Micro Rev. J Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> - 2017-12-07 20:30 +0100
  Bug#864562: u-boot: broken ethernet support on Olimex A20-Olinuxino-Micro Rev. J Jean-Louis Mounier <jean-louis.mounier@laposte.net> - 2017-12-07 22:10 +0100
  Bug#864562: u-boot: broken ethernet support on Olimex A20-Olinuxino-Micro Rev. J Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> - 2017-12-07 22:50 +0100

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