> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:20:13 +0200 > From: Urs Schulz <ub...@ursschulz.de> > > Hey there, > > I have several issues with the newer U-Boot versions on my Banana Pi. > > I recently decided to upgrade some of my Banana Pis to the latest > U-Boot, the last version I had there was 2015.04. Unfortunately the > upgrade to 2017.05 caused weird packet-losses on the ethernet interface > in Linux (took me several days to find out, that it's actually u-boot > causing the problems). When downgrading to my old 2015.04, everythings > works fine. > > The packet loss only occurs in low-load situations, for example with > ping or ssh. I have successfully transfered some large files over the > network with netcat without any issues. So maybe it's some > powersaving-issue with Linux. But obviously, keeping the network > interface under full load at all times can't be the right solution to > the problem. About 10-20% of all packets get lost with ping. > > So I had hoped, it is some kind of "temporary issue" fixed in the next > version and today decided to try again with a newer version. > Unfortunately 2017.07 has even more issues: > > First, the packet-loss issue hasn't disappeared. Sad. > > Second, this version is no longer able to turn on the hdmi interface on > the pi but seems to boot the system (after a minute or so it is > "reachable" via network). > > The same applies to 2017.09-rc2.
The GMAC initialization on the Banana Pi has been borked for a while. It needs: https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2017-July/299703.html But it seems that didn't make it onto master yet. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot