Hello Gary, On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 09:36:07AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm adding the Analogue & Micro Boa (MPC5200/B) platform to the > public 2.6.26 tree. Under heavy network load (sometimes even > not so heavy!), I get this error: > net eth0: FEC_IEVENT_RFIFO_ERROR Yeah, I know this one :( > My question is - what exactly does this error imply? Looking at > the MPC5200 manual doesn't give much info - just that there was > a Rx FIFO error. In deed, the manual seems not very helpful. The description of the set FIFO status bit did not help me that much. > I'm also perplexed by the fact that I have two slightly different > Boa boards (same CPU rev, speed, etc). About the only thing that's > different is the SDRAM setup. One board is rock solid while the > other gets this error almost immediately. I'm not sure if this is really of importance, but do the boards have different PHYs? > Note that I don't have any trouble with this platform running RedBoot > or eCos, just Linux :-( Try this patch and please report if it worked for you: http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH--MPC52XX:-Don't-touch-pipelining-for-MPC5200B-td19028341.html All the best, Wolfram -- Dipl.-Ing. Wolfram Sang | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry
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