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From: "Wolf Erik" <Erik.Wolf@neuberger.net>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] link detection
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:54:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84D7328F545A4040B6CE2CB7BE091E937CAB09@exchange.Neuberger.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20121004T154200-420@post.gmane.org>

Hi,

Johannes De Smedt wrote:
> When I boot my freescale iMX28 board without an ethernet cable, it
> waits just after ADDRCONF: link is not ready. When I plug in an
> ethernet cable, booting resumes.  
> 
> [    2.320000] eth0: Freescale FEC PHY driver [SMSC LAN8710/LAN8720]
> (mii_bus:phy_addr=imx28-fec-1:00, irq=-1)
> [    2.330000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> [   11.320000] PHY: imx28-fec-1:00 - Link is Up - 100/Full
> [   11.340000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> [   11.360000] IP-Config: Complete:
> 
> Why does the boot process wait for an ethernet cable? Is there a
> timeout that can be configured (so the boot process can resume
> faster)?  

I had the same problem some times ago. If you use Barebox, try to set ip in the evironment file to "none" and set up your eth link after the kernel has started.

> 
> Thanks!



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-05  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-04 13:53 Johannes De Smedt
2012-10-05  6:38 ` Robert Schwebel
2012-10-05  7:54 ` Wolf Erik [this message]
2012-10-05 19:10   ` Dave Festing

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