Hi Chase, I have resolved the problem ;-) Basically switching to the busybox 'udhcpc' allows the board to start with the cable removed. It isn't a simple change to get it to work as the 'default' default.script udhcpc runs to handle interface 'events' that is in the root filesystem is no good (known working script substituted) and the -p option for PID cache does not work either (resulting in some grepping for process ID on network shutdown rather than using the PID in the file). Also the 'ifup' config file has no way to pass options to 'udhcpc' so I had to investigate a 'manual' definition that called udhcpc as an external 'method' with the required options. So now if I boot with the cable not present I get (the output of which takes around 3 secs).... Starting network interfaces: eth0: link down udhcpc (v1.6.0) started Sending discover... Sending discover... Sending discover... No lease, forking to background
...& the board continues to start up as normal. Upon plugging in the cable the kernel prints out a 'link up' message and becuase udhcpc is running in the background it eventually gets an IP address. Now to prise a DM6446 out of a developer's hands to see if the same changes work there as well... Regards Phil Q Phil Quiney, Senior Software Engineer Trinity Convergence Cambridge Business Park Cowley Road Cambridge CB4 0WZ, UK T: +44(0)1223-435536 F: +44(0)1223-435560 www.trinityconvergence.com <http://www.trinityconvergence.com/> ________________________________ From: Maupin, Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 September 2008 15:59 To: Phil Quiney; davinci-linux-open-source Subject: RE: DM355 ethernet issue Phil, If you do not need the ethernet then you can set ip=off on the bootargs. If not then you can enable ethernet after boot I believe by doing "/etc/init.d/network restart". If you want to boot with ethernet enabled but no cable you can try removing the ethernet startup scripts to prevent trying to start the ethernet at boot. Sincerely, Chase Maupin Software Applications Catalog DSP Products e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (281) 274-3285 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Quiney Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 4:43 AM To: davinci-linux-open-source Subject: DM355 ethernet issue Hi All, We have noticed that if a DM355 is started with the ethernet cable unplugged, the boot hangs for a considerable time doing the 'ifup'. The interface is configured with the following lines in /etc/network/interfaces... auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp If the cable is plugged in after the board eventually starts, then nothing happens, you get no link light on the connector. Does anybody know a way to fix this? One of our customers reported this on a DM6446 so it looks like it is a common issue for both boards. I am going to try a DM6446 myself to confirm this. Incidentally, I tried using netlink to see if the linkup/link down events are seen by the driver & passed to netlink. If you allow the DM355 to boot with the cable plugged in then start the netlink test program then the events are generated as the cable is unplugged and plugged in.... root@(none):~# ./netlink_test_dm355 Started watching: eth0: link down msg_handler: RTM_NEWLINK netlink_link_state: Link Down eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 msg_handler: RTM_NEWLINK netlink_link_state: Link Up This is a lot better than some boards we have tried ;-) If you ping a host on the network & unplug the cable, then the transmission stops - we have seen all kinds of errors on the console on other boards when this is done. Plugging the cable back in restores operation as you would expect (but don't always get). Regards Phil Q Phil Quiney, Senior Software Engineer Trinity Convergence Cambridge Business Park Cowley Road Cambridge CB4 0WZ, UK T: +44(0)1223-435536 F: +44(0)1223-435560 www.trinityconvergence.com <http://www.trinityconvergence.com/>
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